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Public Health Nutrition is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1368-9800Verify ISSN ↗1475-2727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 115 / 725 | 84th | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 92 / 466 | 80th | Q1 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 44 / 147 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Public Health Nutrition is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 115 of 725), Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 92 of 466) and Q2 in Nutrition and Dietetics (rank 44 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Health Nutrition 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 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.027, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 179.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Public Health Nutrition is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1368-9800 and its online ISSN is 1475-2727.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Public Health Nutrition has an h-index of 209 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Public Health Nutrition published 216 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 718. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (21.2%), United Kingdom (13.9%) and Canada (11%).
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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