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Maternal and Child Health Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf.
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ISSN 1092-7875Verify ISSN ↗1573-6628Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf
Cost to publish: About US$4,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 96 / 351 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 79 / 218 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 279 / 725 | 61st | Q2 |
| Epidemiology | 73 / 173 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Maternal and Child Health Journal is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 96 of 351), Q2 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 79 of 218) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 279 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Maternal and Child Health Journal is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.788, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 115.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,590 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Maternal and Child Health Journal is published by Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf. Its print ISSN is 1092-7875 and its online ISSN is 1573-6628.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Maternal and Child Health Journal has an h-index of 142 and a 2-year mean of 1.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Maternal and Child Health Journal published 171 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 304. 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.
In its latest 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (54%), Australia (6.6%) and Brazil (3.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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