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Tobacco Control is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.6), ABDC B, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 0964-4563Verify ISSN ↗1468-3318Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 11 / 387 | 97th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 27 / 725 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.6.
Tobacco Control is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 11 of 387) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 27 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Tobacco Control is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 10.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.054, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 151.
Tobacco Control is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 0964-4563 and its online ISSN is 1468-3318.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tobacco Control has an h-index of 175 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Tobacco Control published 219 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 238. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (47.8%), Australia (10.1%) and United Kingdom (5.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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