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Clinical Nutrition

Churchill Livingstone · United Kingdom · Est. 1982

ISSN1532-1983

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

2.42

H-Indexi

221

SNIPi

2.017

Total Worksi

17,279

Total Citationsi

360,569

2yr Mean Citednessi

4.64

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Nutrition & Dietetics; Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine; Nutrition and Dietetics.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1982

FrequencyBimonthly, 1989-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications17,279

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Churchill Livingstone

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1532-1983

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.2k

16k

2019

525

21k

2020

489

18k

2021

348

9.6k

2022

341

7.3k

2023

464

4.3k

2024

346

1.7k

2025

202

113

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineQ1

Nutrition and DieteticsQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Nutrition & Dietetics

Scopus Categories

Nutrition and DieteticsCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Nutrition and Health in AgingClinical Nutrition and GastroenterologyDiet and metabolism studiesNutritional Studies and DietBody Composition Measurement TechniquesMuscle metabolism and nutritionMetabolism and Genetic DisordersLiver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentEnhanced Recovery After SurgeryFatty Acid Research and Health

Frequently asked questions about Clinical Nutrition

Is Clinical Nutrition a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Clinical Nutrition: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Clinical Nutrition?

Clinical Nutrition is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 4.64.

Is Clinical Nutrition indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Clinical Nutrition is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Clinical Nutrition?