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Observational Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), DOAJ. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
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ISSN 2767-3324Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 412 / 680 | 39th | Q3 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 248 / 397 | 37th | Q3 |
| Statistics and Probability | 192 / 303 | 36th | Q3 |
| Numerical Analysis | 61 / 93 | 34th | Q3 |
| Computer Science Applications | 698 / 1022 | 31st | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Observational Studies is Q3 in Applied Mathematics (rank 412 of 680), Q3 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 248 of 397) and Q3 in Statistics and Probability (rank 192 of 303), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Observational Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3, 39th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.344, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Observational Studies is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Its ISSN is 2767-3324.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Observational Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 1.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #189 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
Observational Studies published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 36. 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 74 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.5%), Canada (3.4%) and Sweden (2.7%). 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. 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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