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South African Family Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 2078-6190Verify ISSN ↗2078-6204Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Practice | 29 / 59 | 51st | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 446 / 725 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
South African Family Practice is Q2 in Family Practice (rank 29 of 59) and Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 446 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Family Practice 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 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.375, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$856 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.
South African Family Practice is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2078-6190 and its online ISSN is 2078-6204.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Family Practice has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 1.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 55 Scopus journals in Family Practice.
South African Family Practice published 101 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 151. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (96.6%), United States (1.1%) and Belgium (0.5%). 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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