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Canada Communicable Disease Report

Public Health Agency of Canada · Canada · Est. 2010

ISSN1719-3109eISSN1481-8531
DOAJOpen Access
H-Indexi
6
Total Worksi
790
Total Citationsi
473
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.02
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

The Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR) is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases. It provides practical and authoritative information on infectious diseases to clinicians and public health professionals as well as researchers, policy-makers, teachers, students and others who are interested in infectious diseases. The objective of CCDR is to advance the capacity to prevent, detect and mitigate the effects of infectious diseases in Canada and worldwide.

General Information

Country / RegionCanada
Primary LanguageEnglish, French
1st Year Published2010
FrequencyTen times a year
StatusActive (last: 2025)
Total Publications790
Publisher OrgPublic Health Agency of Canada
OA Since2009
Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble anonymous peer review
OA LicenseCC BY
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

8/11 · 73%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Public Health Agency of Canada
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1719-3109 / 1481-8531
Indexed in a trusted database?
DOAJ, PubMed
Peer review process documented?
Double anonymous peer review
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
N/A
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
DOAJ verified
Primary language documented?
English, French

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
45
72
2019
71
75
2020
70
34
2021
71
38
2022
61
10
2023
52
5
2024
45
2
2025
37
0
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.

Frequently asked questions about Canada Communicable Disease Report

Is Canada Communicable Disease Report a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Canada Communicable Disease Report: it is indexed in DOAJ, 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 Canada Communicable Disease Report?

Canada Communicable Disease Report is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.02.

Is Canada Communicable Disease Report indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Canada Communicable Disease Report is indexed in DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Canada Communicable Disease Report?

The Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR) is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases. It provides practical and authoritative information on infectious diseases to clinicians and public health professionals as well as researchers, policy-makers, teachers, students and others who are interested in infectious diseases. The objective of CCDR is to advance the capacity to prevent, detect and mitigate the effects of infectious diseases in Canada and worldwide.

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Data updated: 2026-05-26 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref