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British Journal of Health Care Management is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Mark Allen Group.
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ISSN 1358-0574Verify ISSN ↗1759-7382Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mark Allen Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 247 / 330 | 25th | Q3 |
| Leadership and Management | 34 / 41 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
British Journal of Health Care Management is Q3 in Health Policy (rank 247 of 330) and Q4 in Leadership and Management (rank 34 of 41), by CiteScore 2025.
British Journal of Health Care Management is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.215, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 21.
British Journal of Health Care Management is published by Mark Allen Group. Its print ISSN is 1358-0574 and its online ISSN is 1759-7382.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
British Journal of Health Care Management has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #257 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
British Journal of Health Care Management published 78 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 139. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (69%), India (4.3%) and United States (4.1%). 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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