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Women and Birth is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1871-5192Verify ISSN ↗1878-1799Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,613 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maternity and Midwifery | 1 / 45 | 98th | Q1 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 13 / 218 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Women and Birth is Q1 in Maternity and Midwifery (rank 1 of 45) and Q1 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 13 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
Women and Birth 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 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.291, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 71.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,613 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.
Women and Birth is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1871-5192 and its online ISSN is 1878-1799.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Women and Birth has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 1.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 44 Scopus journals in Maternity and Midwifery.
Women and Birth published 255 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 328. 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 83 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Australia (86.7%), Ireland (1.8%) and Türkiye (1.2%). 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 1 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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