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Preventive Medicine Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2211-3355Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 198 / 725 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Health Informatics | 75 / 168 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.7.
Preventive Medicine Reports is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 198 of 725) and Q2 in Health Informatics (rank 75 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Preventive Medicine Reports 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.050, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,610 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.
Preventive Medicine Reports is published by Elsevier Inc. Its ISSN is 2211-3355.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Preventive Medicine Reports has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 2.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #163 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Preventive Medicine Reports published 390 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 472. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (37.1%), China (16%) and Japan (5.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 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.
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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