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Payesh is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), DOAJ.
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ISSN 1680-7626Verify ISSN ↗2008-4536Verify ISSN ↗
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 37 / 55 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 302 / 387 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 262 / 330 | 20th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 578 / 725 | 20th | Q4 |
| Health Informatics | 138 / 168 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Payesh is Q3 in Nursing (miscellaneous) (rank 37 of 55), Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 302 of 387) and Q4 in Health Policy (rank 262 of 330), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Payesh 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 0.9, quartile Q3, 33rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.210, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Its print ISSN is 1680-7626 and its online ISSN is 2008-4536.
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.
Payesh has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 53 Scopus journals in Nursing (miscellaneous).
Payesh published 20 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 61. 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 (2021–2023), authors are most often from Iran (100%). 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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