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npj Vaccines is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 2059-0105Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 30 / 361 | 91st | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 24 / 278 | 91st | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 40 / 328 | 87th | Q1 |
| Immunology | 43 / 243 | 82nd | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.8.
npj Vaccines is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 30 of 361), Q1 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 24 of 278) and Q1 in Pharmacology (rank 40 of 328), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
npj Vaccines 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 9.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.282, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 63.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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 Vaccines is published by Nature Research. Its ISSN is 2059-0105.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
npj Vaccines has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 6.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
npj Vaccines published 301 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (19.3%), China (16.7%) and United Kingdom (7.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (3.8 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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