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PLOS Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), DOAJ. Published by Public Library of Science.
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ISSN 2837-8156Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Public Library of Science
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 323 / 387 | 16th | Q4 |
| Epidemiology | 146 / 173 | 15th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 615 / 725 | 15th | Q4 |
| Psychology (all) | 188 / 220 | 14th | Q4 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 501 / 580 | 13th | Q4 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 113 / 129 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
PLOS Mental Health is Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 323 of 387), Q4 in Epidemiology (rank 146 of 173) and Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 615 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
PLOS Mental Health 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 16th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.560, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,496 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.
PLOS Mental Health is published by Public Library of Science. Its ISSN is 2837-8156.
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.
PLOS Mental Health has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 2.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
PLOS Mental Health published 292 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (23.8%), United Kingdom (16.6%) and Canada (9.8%).
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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