Announcements

PCD Receives Its Highest Impact Factor and 5-Year Impact Factor

Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is proud to announce receipt of a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.6 in the 2026 release of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in the category of Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. This impact factor is an increase from the previous year’s 3.9 and represents the highest impact factor the journal has received since it was established in 2004.

PCD also received its highest ever 5-year Journal Impact Factor, from 4.6 the previous year to 5.6 this year. The 5-year Journal Impact Factor represents the average number of times that an article published in the previous 5 years (2020–2024) was cited in 2024. JCR also ranked PCD in the top 9% (40th of 433) of journals worldwide in the category of Public, Environmental & Occupational Health.

Other sources also show higher rankings for PCD from the previous year. Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) reported a higher rank for PCD in all categories:

• Top 5% worldwide of all 32,193 journals tracked by SJR
• Top 5% (43/739) worldwide of journals in the category of Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health
• Top 10% (4/40) of US open-access journals in the category of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
• Top 9% (15/162) of US journals in the category of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

PCD is also indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central and reported an acceptance rate in 2025 of 14.2%.

Teams of dedicated volunteers — serving as the journal’s Associate Editors and on the Editorial Board and Statistics Review Committee — along with peer reviewers and journal staff members helped to make the journal a sought-after and well-respected resource for researchers, evaluators, and policymakers worldwide. PCD would not have achieved its success without the unwavering support of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s (NCCDPHP) senior leadership team. PCD sincerely thanks its readership for trusting the journal to provide reliable content that has been used to inform public health responses to persistent and novel challenges that require new knowledge and innovation.

The journal looks forward to releasing additional rich content on topics of greatest interest to the journal’s readership and the field of public health at large.

Please join us in celebrating these tremendous accomplishments!