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Pediatric Emergency Care is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 0749-5161Verify ISSN ↗1535-1815Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine | 42 / 111 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 155 / 351 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Pediatric Emergency Care is Q2 in Emergency Medicine (rank 42 of 111) and Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 155 of 351), by CiteScore 2025.
Pediatric Emergency Care 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.508, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 82.
Pediatric Emergency Care is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 0749-5161 and its online ISSN is 1535-1815.
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.
Pediatric Emergency Care has an h-index of 97 and a 2-year mean of 1.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 109 Scopus journals in Emergency Medicine.
Pediatric Emergency Care published 211 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 386. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (71.1%), Türkiye (5.2%) and Canada (4.1%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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.
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