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Indian Journal of Community Health

Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand (IAPSMUPUK) State Chapter · India · Est. 1987

ISSN2248-9509

SJR Q4✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

/ 100

Established

PubScope credibility score from verifiable indexing & ethics signals

Score Breakdown

◆ WoS ESCI56

✓ Corroboration (1 more)+6

⚠ Withdrawn from DOAJ-15

Total47

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Removed from DOAJ (2018-08-13). 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 ↗

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

Publication speed: not measurable

publisher doesn’t disclose per-article submission dates — we never estimate

SJR Rank

Bottom 25%

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

SJR Scorei

0.177

H-Indexi

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIPi

0.161

Total Worksi

1,403

Total Citationsi

4,153

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.36

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Original research articles are invited on public health, primary health care, epidemiology, health administration, health systems, health economics, health promotion, public health nutrition, communicable and non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, occupational and environmental health, social and preventive medicine which have potential to promote evidence-based public health action. The Journal also include editorial, commentaries, perspectives, state of the art reviews, research briefs, policy and practice, reports from the field, public health classics, letters to the editor and book reviews.

General Information

Country / RegionIndia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1987

Annual Volume~ 143 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,403

Publisher OrgIndian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewPeer-reviewed

Review Time—

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/12 · 58%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand (IAPSMUPUK) State Chapter

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2248-9509

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

Peer-reviewed

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

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

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

412

2019

152

623

2020

124

224

2021

113

217

2022

100

160

2023

148

127

2024

181

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.

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Child Nutrition and Water AccessGlobal Maternal and Child HealthGlobal Health and EpidemiologyHealth and Well-being StudiesHealthcare Systems and ReformsGlobal Public Health Policies and EpidemiologyCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesDiverse Scientific Research StudiesVaccine Coverage and HesitancyCOVID-19 and Mental Health

Frequently asked questions about Indian Journal of Community Health

Is Indian Journal of Community Health a predatory journal?

Indian Journal of Community Health was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2018-08-13). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Indian Journal of Community Health?

Indian Journal of Community Health 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 0.36.

Is Indian Journal of Community Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Indian Journal of Community Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.