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Infection, Disease and Health

Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control · Australia · Est. 2012

ISSN2468-0451eISSN2468-0451

SJR Q3✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.358

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.778

Total Worksi

1,021

Total Citationsi

4,419

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.41

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Infectious Diseases; Nursing (miscellaneous); Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionAustralia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2012

Annual Volume~ 108 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,021

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?

Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2468-0451 / 2468-0451

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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

738

2019

1.1k

2020

613

2021

217

2022

188

2023

113

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.

Infectious DiseasesQ3

Nursing (miscellaneous)Q3

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Nursing (miscellaneous)Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthInfectious Diseases

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Infection Control in HealthcareAntibiotic Use and ResistanceInfection Control and VentilationNosocomial Infections in ICUMedical Device Sterilization and DisinfectionSurgical site infection preventionCentral Venous Catheters and HemodialysisUrinary Tract Infections ManagementAntibiotic Resistance in BacteriaAntimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus

Frequently asked questions about Infection, Disease and Health

Is Infection, Disease and Health a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Infection, Disease and 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 Infection, Disease and Health?

Infection, Disease and 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 0.41.

Is Infection, Disease and Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Infection, Disease and Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Infection, Disease and Health?