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Sage Open Pediatrics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 3050-2225Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 173 / 351 | 50th | Q2 |
| Pediatrics | 19 / 28 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Sage Open Pediatrics is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 173 of 351) and Q3 in Pediatrics (rank 19 of 28), by CiteScore 2025.
Sage Open Pediatrics is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.397, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Sage Open Pediatrics is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its ISSN is 3050-2225.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sage Open Pediatrics has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #196 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Sage Open Pediatrics published 135 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Ethiopia (24.2%), United States (12.3%) and Nepal (4.4%).
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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