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Games for Health Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SSCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2161-783XVerify ISSN ↗2161-7856Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 11 / 172 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 49 / 387 | 87th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 126 / 725 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 309 / 1022 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Games for Health Journal is Q1 in Rehabilitation (rank 11 of 172), Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 49 of 387) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 126 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Games for Health Journal 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.890, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
Games for Health Journal is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2161-783X and its online ISSN is 2161-7856.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Games for Health Journal has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 3.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Games for Health Journal published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 69. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (19%), China (13.8%) and Türkiye (10%).
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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