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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5). Published by Pacini Editore Srl.
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ISSN 1121-2233Verify ISSN ↗2421-4248Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pacini Editore Srl
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 147 / 725 | 79th | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 102 / 361 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1992–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 147 of 725) and Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 102 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1, 79th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.835, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 43.
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene is published by Pacini Editore Srl. Its print ISSN is 1121-2233 and its online ISSN is 2421-4248.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #657 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2004 with 4. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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