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Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Nutrition Society of Nigeria.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0189-0913Verify ISSN ↗2805-4008Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nutrition Society of Nigeria
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 238 / 250 | 5th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 704 / 725 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Food Science | 409 / 420 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences is Q4 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 238 of 250), Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 704 of 725) and Q4 in Food Science (rank 409 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences 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 0.2, quartile Q4, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.136, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences is published by Nutrition Society of Nigeria. Its print ISSN is 0189-0913 and its online ISSN is 2805-4008.
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.
Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #212 of 246 Scopus journals in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 57. 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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