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Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences

Universidade Estadual de Maringa · Brazil · Est. 2003

ISSN1807-8648

SJR Q4✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.151

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.192

Total Worksi

770

Total Citationsi

3,308

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.25

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous); Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionBrazil

Primary LanguageEnglish, Portuguese

1st Year Published2003

Annual Volume~ 41 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications770

Publisher OrgUniversidade Estadual de Maringá

OA Since1997

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Cariniana Network

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Universidade Estadual de Maringa

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1807-8648

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

Cariniana Network

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English, Portuguese

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

2018

133

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)Q4

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)Medicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Health, Nursing, Elderly CareMaternal and Neonatal HealthcareYouth, Drugs, and ViolencePublic Health in BrazilBreastfeeding Practices and InfluencesHealthcare RegulationObesity, Physical Activity, DietDental Health and Care UtilizationInjury Epidemiology and PreventionPalliative and Oncologic Care

Frequently asked questions about Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences

Is Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, 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 Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences?

Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences 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 0.25.

Is Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Acta Scientiarum - Health Sciences?