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Performance Enhancement and Health is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2211-2669Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,480 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 110 / 387 | 71st | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 75 / 257 | 71st | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 262 / 725 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 2012–2014), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Performance Enhancement and Health is Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 110 of 387), Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 75 of 257) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 262 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Performance Enhancement and Health 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.708, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,480 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.
Performance Enhancement and Health is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2211-2669.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Performance Enhancement and Health has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 2.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Performance Enhancement and Health published 79 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (20%), Germany (13.7%) and United States (10.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.1 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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