Journal profile
Diabetes Care
Diabetes Care is published by American Diabetes Association under ISSN 0149-5992. It holds an h-index of 510 across 22,317 indexed works, with a two-year mean citedness of 13.11, and is not fully open access. Its main subject areas are Diabetes Management and Research, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, Diabetes Treatment and Management.
Below: the full publication record, and one real article from the journal formatted in IEEE, APA, and BibTeX so you can match field order against a source you can check.
Publication record and impact metrics
| Publisher | American Diabetes Association |
|---|---|
| ISSN-L | 0149-5992 |
| All ISSNs | 0149-5992, 1935-5548 |
| Indexed works | 22,317 |
| Total citations | 2,042,968 |
| h-index | 510 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 13.11 |
| Open access | Not fully open access |
| Main topics | Diabetes Management and Research · Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins · Diabetes Treatment and Management · Diabetes and associated disorders · Diabetes Management and Education |
Publication figures come from this journal's OpenAlex record, released under CC0, and are a dated snapshot rather than a live count. Check the publisher for current scope and submission requirements.
A worked example from this journal
The source
Global Prevalence of Diabetes
- Authors
- Sarah H. Wild, Gojka Roglić, Anders Green, Richard Sicree, Hilary King
- Year
- 2004
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1047-1053
IEEE
S. H. Wild, G. Roglić, A. Green, R. Sicree, H. King "Global Prevalence of Diabetes," Diabetes Care, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1047-1053, 2004, doi: 10.2337/diacare.27.5.1047.
IEEE prints author initials before the surname and abbreviates the periodical title. Check the abbreviation for Diabetes Care against your target publication's reference list before submitting.
APA
Wild, S. H., Roglić, G., Green, A., Sicree, R., & King, H. (2004). Global Prevalence of Diabetes. Diabetes Care, 27(5), 1047-1053. https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.27.5.1047
APA puts the year directly after the authors, keeps the full journal title in italics, and renders the DOI as a URL.
BibTeX
@article{wild2004,
author = {Sarah H. Wild and Gojka Roglić and Anders Green and Richard Sicree and Hilary King},
title = {Global Prevalence of Diabetes},
journal = {Diabetes Care},
volume = {27},
number = {5},
pages = {1047--1053},
year = {2004},
issn = {0149-5992},
doi = {10.2337/diacare.27.5.1047}
}The citation key is the first author's surname and the year. Keep it stable once it appears in a draft, because renaming it breaks every cite that used it.
What to verify before you submit
- The volume and page range. Diabetes Care records 22,317 works, and articles published online first can carry a different volume from the final issue. Cite the version you read.
- The abbreviated title. IEEE style uses standard periodical abbreviations, and registry metadata almost always returns the full name instead.
- Author name order. Registry records store full given names; IEEE and APA both want initials, formatted differently from each other.
- Whether the article is open access. This journal is not fully open access, which affects whether a reader can reach the version you cited.
- That the source supports your claim. A correctly formatted reference says nothing about whether the passage backs the sentence citing it.
How this journal sits in the record
Diabetes Care carries an h-index of 510, which is above 87% of the journals covered here, and its articles have accumulated 2,042,968 citations across 22,317 indexed works. Its two-year mean citedness is 13.11.
2 of the journals covered here are published by American Diabetes Association. Reference style is set per title rather than per publisher, so do not carry a format across from a sibling journal without checking.
These are indexing figures describing how often work in this venue is cited. They say nothing about whether a particular article is sound, and they are not a substitute for reading it.
Questions about Diabetes Care
What is the ISSN of Diabetes Care?
The linking ISSN is 0149-5992. The journal also carries 1935-5548, which usually separate the print and electronic editions. Use the linking ISSN in a BibTeX issn field.
Who publishes Diabetes Care?
American Diabetes Association publishes it. 2 journals covered here come from the same publisher, and they do not all share one reference style, so check the requirements for this title rather than the publisher.
Is Diabetes Care open access?
OpenAlex does not record it as fully open access. Some articles may still be open individually, so check the specific article rather than assuming from the journal.
How do I cite an article from Diabetes Care in LaTeX?
Use the BibTeX entry above as the pattern. The entry type is article, the journal field holds the full title, and the citation key wild2004 follows the first author's surname and the year. Brace any acronym in the title so your bibliography style does not lowercase it.
Does Diabetes Care use page numbers or article numbers?
The example article runs from page 1047 to 1053, so this journal used page ranges at least for that volume. Newer issues in many journals switched to article numbers, so check the version you are citing.
How influential is Diabetes Care?
Its h-index is 510, above 87% of the journals covered here, and its articles have been cited 2,042,968 times in total. Its two-year mean citedness is 13.11. These are indexing figures, not a judgement of whether a specific article is sound.
Does Diabetes Care have a Journal Impact Factor?
Not one shown here. The Journal Impact Factor is Clarivate's metric, published in Journal Citation Reports and readable only with a JCR subscription, so this page does not restate it. The figures above come from OpenAlex: an h-index of 510 and a two-year mean citedness of 13.11 across 22,317 indexed works, captured on 2026-09-18. Mean citedness averages citations per work over a two-year window, which makes it closer in construction to CiteScore than to the Impact Factor. The three are not interchangeable, so quote whichever one your target venue actually asks for.