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Preventing Chronic Disease is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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ISSN 1545-1151Verify ISSN ↗2166-5435Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 36 / 330 | 89th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 86 / 725 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Preventing Chronic Disease is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 36 of 330) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 86 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Preventing Chronic Disease is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.824, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 108.
Preventing Chronic Disease is published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its print ISSN is 1545-1151 and its online ISSN is 2166-5435.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Preventing Chronic Disease has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 8.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Preventing Chronic Disease published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 167. 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 States (89.2%), Thailand (1.5%) and Tunisia (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 (0.7 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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