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Noise and Health is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1463-1741Verify ISSN ↗1998-4030Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otorhinolaryngology | 75 / 123 | 39th | Q3 |
| Speech and Hearing | 43 / 68 | 37th | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 485 / 725 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Noise and Health is Q3 in Otorhinolaryngology (rank 75 of 123), Q3 in Speech and Hearing (rank 43 of 68) and Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 485 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Noise and Health 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.380, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 63.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$100 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.
Noise and Health is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 1463-1741 and its online ISSN is 1998-4030.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Noise and Health has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 122 Scopus journals in Otorhinolaryngology.
Noise and Health published 127 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (62.5%), South Korea (5.4%) and Iran (3.6%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (4.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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