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NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2948-2828Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 103 / 250 | 59th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 162 / 357 | 54th | Q2 |
| Endocrinology | 65 / 132 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.
NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease is Q2 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 103 of 250), Q2 in Genetics (rank 162 of 357) and Q2 in Endocrinology (rank 65 of 132), by CiteScore 2025.
NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease 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 5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.824, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,590 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.
NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2948-2828.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 12.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 246 Scopus journals in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease published 48 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (31%), Australia (12.6%) and China (9.7%).
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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