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Mental Health: Global Challenges is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), DOAJ. Published by Sciendo.
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ISSN 2612-2138Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sciendo
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 38 / 101 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 73 / 118 | 38th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 251 / 387 | 35th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 424 / 580 | 26th | Q3 |
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 59 / 74 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Mental Health: Global Challenges is Q2 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 38 of 101), Q3 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 73 of 118) and Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 251 of 387), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Mental Health: Global Challenges 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 1.5, quartile Q2, 62nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.277, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
Mental Health: Global Challenges is published by Sciendo. Its ISSN is 2612-2138.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Mental Health: Global Challenges has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
Mental Health: Global Challenges published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 60. 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 76 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Ukraine (29.6%), Canada (7.6%) and United States (7.2%).
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.
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