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Digital Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 2055-2076Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 55 / 330 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 51 / 168 | 69th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 319 / 1022 | 68th | Q2 |
| Health Information Management | 21 / 64 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2015), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Digital Health is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 55 of 330), Q2 in Health Informatics (rank 51 of 168) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 319 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Digital Health is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.991, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 54.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,000 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Digital Health is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its ISSN is 2055-2076.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Digital Health has an h-index of 78 and a 2-year mean of 4.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Digital Health published 870 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (33.9%), United States (16.1%) and United Kingdom (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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