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Parasitology International is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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ISSN 1383-5769Verify ISSN ↗1873-0329Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitology | 30 / 82 | 64th | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 160 / 361 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Parasitology International is Q2 in Parasitology (rank 30 of 82) and Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 160 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Parasitology International 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.539, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,450 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.
Parasitology International is published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1383-5769 and its online ISSN is 1873-0329.
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.
Parasitology International has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 80 Scopus journals in Parasitology.
Parasitology International published 156 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 221. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (18.5%), Brazil (17.2%) and China (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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