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Parasite Epidemiology and Control is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2405-6731Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitology | 24 / 82 | 71st | Q2 |
| Epidemiology | 60 / 173 | 65th | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 138 / 361 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Parasite Epidemiology and Control is Q2 in Parasitology (rank 24 of 82), Q2 in Epidemiology (rank 60 of 173) and Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 138 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Parasite Epidemiology and Control 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.675, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,800 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.
Parasite Epidemiology and Control is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2405-6731.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Parasite Epidemiology and Control has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 2.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 80 Scopus journals in Parasitology.
Parasite Epidemiology and Control published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 65. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iran (21.4%), Ethiopia (16.8%) and Thailand (5.1%).
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.
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