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Injury Epidemiology

SpringerOpen · United Kingdom · Est. 2003

ISSN2197-1714eISSN2197-1714

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.825

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.315

Total Worksi

695

Total Citationsi

9,898

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.74

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2003

FrequencyMonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications695

Publisher OrgBioMed Central

OA Since2013

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC0

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

LOCKSSPorticoPMCCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SpringerOpen

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2197-1714 / 2197-1714

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Single-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?

LOCKSS, Portico, PMC, CLOCKSS

✅

Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

858

2019

938

2020

1.2k

2021

493

2022

557

2023

323

2024

154

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.

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Injury Epidemiology and PreventionGun Ownership and Violence ResearchSuicide and Self-Harm StudiesTrauma and Emergency Care StudiesTraffic and Road SafetyCrime Patterns and InterventionsTraumatic Ocular and Foreign Body InjuriesTraumatic Brain Injury ResearchSports injuries and preventionAgriculture and Farm Safety

Frequently asked questions about Injury Epidemiology

Is Injury Epidemiology a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Injury Epidemiology: 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 Injury Epidemiology?

Injury Epidemiology 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 1.74.

Is Injury Epidemiology indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Injury Epidemiology is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Injury Epidemiology?