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Mental Health and Prevention is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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ISSN 2212-6570Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,810 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 299 / 725 | 58th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 268 / 580 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Mental Health and Prevention is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 299 of 725) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 268 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Mental Health and Prevention is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.119, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 30.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,810 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.
Mental Health and Prevention is published by Elsevier GmbH. Its ISSN is 2212-6570.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Mental Health and Prevention has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 2.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #214 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Mental Health and Prevention published 81 papers in 2025. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Australia (19.9%), United States (16.2%) and United Kingdom (7.5%).
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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