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Obesity Facts is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 1662-4025Verify ISSN ↗1662-4033Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 13 / 387 | 96th | Q1 |
| Physiology (medical) | 13 / 117 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.9.
Obesity Facts is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 13 of 387) and Q1 in Physiology (medical) (rank 13 of 117), by CiteScore 2025.
Obesity Facts 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 9.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.511, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Obesity Facts is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 1662-4025 and its online ISSN is 1662-4033.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Obesity Facts has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Obesity Facts published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 105. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (10.4%), China (9.3%) and Spain (9.2%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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