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Sociology of Health and Illness is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0141-9889Verify ISSN ↗1467-9566Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,330 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 56 / 387 | 85th | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 69 / 330 | 79th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 154 / 725 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Sociology of Health and Illness is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 56 of 387), Q1 in Health Policy (rank 69 of 330) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 154 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociology of Health and Illness 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.180, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 122.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,330 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Sociology of Health and Illness is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0141-9889 and its online ISSN is 1467-9566.
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 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field (down from 4 in 2021).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sociology of Health and Illness has an h-index of 156 and a 2-year mean of 1.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #150 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Sociology of Health and Illness published 154 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 196. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31.8%), United States (9.2%) and Australia (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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