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Obesity Research and Clinical Practice

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2001

ISSN1878-0318

SJR Q2✓ 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 ↗

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.733

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.914

Total Worksi

2,967

Total Citationsi

27,212

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Endocrinology & Metabolism; Nutrition & Dietetics; Nutrition and Dietetics; Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2001

Annual Volume~ 130 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,967

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?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1878-0318

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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

481

1.5k

2019

3.7k

2020

1.6k

2021

769

2022

474

2023

209

287

2024

212

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.

Nutrition and DieteticsQ2

Endocrinology, Diabetes and MetabolismQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Endocrinology & MetabolismNutrition & Dietetics

Scopus Categories

Nutrition and DieteticsEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Obesity, Physical Activity, DietObesity and Health PracticesBariatric Surgery and OutcomesDiet and metabolism studiesAdipose Tissue and MetabolismDiabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and LipoproteinsEating Disorders and BehaviorsAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic DiseasesNutritional Studies and DietBirth, Development, and Health

Frequently asked questions about Obesity Research and Clinical Practice

Is Obesity Research and Clinical Practice a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Obesity Research and Clinical Practice: 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 Obesity Research and Clinical Practice?

Obesity Research and Clinical Practice 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 1.07.

Is Obesity Research and Clinical Practice indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Obesity Research and Clinical Practice is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Obesity Research and Clinical Practice?