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Obesity Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1467-7881Verify ISSN ↗1467-789XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$5,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 12 / 725 | 98th | Q1 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 15 / 250 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.2.
Obesity Reviews is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 12 of 725) and Q1 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 15 of 250), by CiteScore 2025.
Obesity Reviews 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 16.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.028, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 222.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,450 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 Reviews is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1467-7881 and its online ISSN is 1467-789X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Obesity Reviews has an h-index of 264 and a 2-year mean of 7.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Obesity Reviews published 200 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 252. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (15.2%), Australia (13.6%) and United States (11.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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.
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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