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SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by South African Medical Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1994-3032Verify ISSN ↗1999-7671Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Medical Association
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 249 / 351 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health is Q3 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 249 of 351), by CiteScore 2025.
SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.221, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health is published by South African Medical Association. Its print ISSN is 1994-3032 and its online ISSN is 1999-7671.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #254 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 54. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (79.8%), Indonesia (3.3%) and United States (3.1%). 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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