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Social Work in Public Health is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1937-190XVerify ISSN ↗1937-1918Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 170 / 387 | 56th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 370 / 725 | 49th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 180 / 330 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Social Work in Public Health is Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 170 of 387), Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 370 of 725) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 180 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Work in Public Health 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.451, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
Social Work in Public Health is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1937-190X and its online ISSN is 1937-1918.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (Work and Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Work in Public Health has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #147 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Social Work in Public Health published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 84. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (67.2%), Türkiye (8.1%) and China (5.1%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). 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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