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Salud Publica de Mexico is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica.
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ISSN 0036-3634Verify ISSN ↗1606-7916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 206 / 725 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1961–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Salud Publica de Mexico is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 206 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Salud Publica de Mexico is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.992, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
Salud Publica de Mexico is published by Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica. Its print ISSN is 0036-3634 and its online ISSN is 1606-7916.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Salud Publica de Mexico has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #403 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Salud Publica de Mexico published 119 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 185. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Mexico (84.7%), United States (8.7%) and Colombia (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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