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American Journal of Health Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 2332-3493Verify ISSN ↗2332-3507Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 84 / 283 | 70th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 308 / 725 | 57th | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 145 / 330 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
American Journal of Health Economics is Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 84 of 283), Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 308 of 725) and Q2 in Health Policy (rank 145 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Health Economics is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.232, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
American Journal of Health Economics is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 2332-3493 and its online ISSN is 2332-3507.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Health Economics has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #154 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
American Journal of Health Economics published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 44. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 20 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (75.2%), Germany (6.7%) and Spain (4.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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