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MMWR Recommendations and Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 131.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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ISSN 1057-5987Verify ISSN ↗1545-8601Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 1 / 387 | 99th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 1 / 173 | 99th | Q1 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 1 / 151 | 99th | Q1 |
| Health Information Management | 1 / 64 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 131.2.
MMWR Recommendations and Reports is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 1 of 387), Q1 in Epidemiology (rank 1 of 173) and Q1 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 1 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
MMWR Recommendations and Reports is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 131.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 27.974, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 158.
MMWR Recommendations and Reports is published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its print ISSN is 1057-5987 and its online ISSN is 1545-8601.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
MMWR Recommendations and Reports has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 127.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 131.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
MMWR Recommendations and Reports published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 10. 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 24 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.4%), Kenya (8.7%) and Canada (7.3%). 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.
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