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Viral Hepatitis Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Galenos Publishing House.
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ISSN 1307-9441Verify ISSN ↗2147-2939Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Galenos Publishing House
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hepatology | 79 / 88 | 10th | Q4 |
| Infectious Diseases | 338 / 361 | 6th | Q4 |
| Virology | 81 / 86 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Viral Hepatitis Journal is Q4 in Hepatology (rank 79 of 88), Q4 in Infectious Diseases (rank 338 of 361) and Q4 in Virology (rank 81 of 86), by CiteScore 2025.
Viral Hepatitis Journal 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 10th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.141, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Viral Hepatitis Journal is published by Galenos Publishing House. Its print ISSN is 1307-9441 and its online ISSN is 2147-2939.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Viral Hepatitis Journal has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #74 of 87 Scopus journals in Hepatology.
Viral Hepatitis Journal published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 36. 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 96 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (89.6%), Pakistan (2.1%) and Cyprus (1.6%). 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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