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Rhetoric of Health and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Florida Press.
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Publisher: University of Florida Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 396 / 1221 | 67th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 274 / 387 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 396 of 1221) and Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 274 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine 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 1.2, quartile Q2, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.319, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine is published by University of Florida Press. Its print ISSN is 2573-5055 and its online ISSN is 2573-5063.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #545 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 48. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (93.8%), Canada (3.6%) and Norway (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. 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.
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