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Online Journal of Public Health Informatics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by JMIR Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1947-2579Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 228 / 466 | 51st | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 404 / 725 | 44th | Q3 |
| Health Informatics | 109 / 168 | 35th | Q3 |
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 2.4.
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics is Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 228 of 466), Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 404 of 725) and Q3 in Health Informatics (rank 109 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.540, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$350 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.
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics is published by JMIR Publications Inc. Its ISSN is 1947-2579.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 1.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #176 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 254. 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 84 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (38.8%), Japan (6.3%) and United Kingdom (6.1%).
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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