Physis

Institute de Medicina Social da UERJ · Brazil · Est. 1991

ISSN1809-4481

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2022-08-19). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.291

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.465

Total Worksi

1,912

Total Citationsi

20,380

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.48

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Policy; Health (social science); Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionBrazil

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1991

Annual Volume~ 139 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,912

Publisher OrgUniversidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

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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

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Institute de Medicina Social da UERJ

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1809-4481

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

N/A

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

707

2019

114

1.4k

2020

121

975

2021

346

2022

117

329

2023

126

181

2024

174

2025

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.

Health PolicyQ3

Health (social science)Q3

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealth (social science)Health Policy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Health, Nursing, Elderly CareYouth, Drugs, and ViolencePublic Health in BrazilPsychology and Mental HealthGender, Sexuality, and EducationMale Reproductive Health StudiesMaternal and Neonatal HealthcareHealthcare during COVID-19 PandemicBusiness and Management StudiesSocial and Economic Solidarity

Frequently asked questions about Physis

Is Physis a predatory journal?

Physis was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2022-08-19). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Physis?

Physis is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.291.

Is Physis indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Physis is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Physis?