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Forum for Health Economics and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by De Gruyter.
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ISSN 1558-9544Verify ISSN ↗2194-6191Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 127 / 283 | 55th | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 194 / 330 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2011–2012), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Forum for Health Economics and Policy is Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 127 of 283) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 194 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Forum for Health Economics and Policy 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 2.3, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.377, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Forum for Health Economics and Policy is published by De Gruyter. Its print ISSN is 1558-9544 and its online ISSN is 2194-6191.
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 Other economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forum for Health Economics and Policy has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Forum for Health Economics and Policy published 5 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 7. 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 21 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (64.3%), United Kingdom (7.1%) and Germany (7.1%). 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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