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Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1530-3667Verify ISSN ↗1557-7759Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 170 / 361 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Virology | 47 / 86 | 45th | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 127 / 194 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases is Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 170 of 361), Q3 in Virology (rank 47 of 86) and Q3 in Microbiology (rank 127 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.626, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 94.
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1530-3667 and its online ISSN is 1557-7759.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases has an h-index of 105 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases published 87 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 152. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (21.1%), United States (17.9%) and India (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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