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AIMS Public Health

American Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States · Est. 1971

ISSN2327-8994eISSN2327-8994

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.898

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.068

Total Worksi

673

Total Citationsi

9,516

2yr Mean Citednessi

4.77

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

AIMS Public Health is Open Access and an international quarterly publication devoted to publishing peer-reviewed, high quality, original papers in the field of public health. We publish the following article types: original research articles, reviews, editorials, letters, and conference reports.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1971

Frequencyquarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications673

Publisher OrgAIMS Press

OA Since2013

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Reviewpeer-reviewed

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/11 · 64%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2327-8994 / 2327-8994

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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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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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

766

2019

2020

1.4k

2021

697

2022

759

2023

845

2024

213

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 HealthQ1

Health InformaticsQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & Services

Scopus Categories

Health InformaticsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Obesity, Physical Activity, DietCOVID-19 and Mental HealthPhysical Activity and HealthHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesHealth disparities and outcomesNutritional Studies and DietGlobal Maternal and Child HealthGlobal Cancer Incidence and ScreeningFood Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Frequently asked questions about AIMS Public Health

Is AIMS Public Health a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for AIMS Public Health: 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 AIMS Public Health?

AIMS Public 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 4.77.

Is AIMS Public Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

AIMS Public Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.