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Pediatric Obesity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 2047-6302Verify ISSN ↗2047-6310Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,880 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 29 / 351 | 91st | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 49 / 330 | 85th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 116 / 725 | 84th | Q1 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 46 / 147 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Pediatric Obesity is Q1 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 29 of 351), Q1 in Health Policy (rank 49 of 330) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 116 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Pediatric Obesity 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.125, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 92.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,880 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.
Pediatric Obesity is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2047-6302 and its online ISSN is 2047-6310.
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 Obesity has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 2.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Pediatric Obesity published 116 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 172. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (41.8%), Canada (5.4%) and United Kingdom (4.2%).
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.
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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