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Open Forum Infectious Diseases is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2328-8957Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 90 / 361 | 75th | Q1 |
| Oncology | 116 / 428 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 90 of 361) and Q2 in Oncology (rank 116 of 428), by CiteScore 2025.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.428, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 83.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,053 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.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases is published by Oxford University Press. Its ISSN is 2328-8957.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases has an h-index of 103 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #223 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases published 3,336 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 (55.7%), France (4.5%) and United Kingdom (3.3%). 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. 10 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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