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Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.8), DOAJ. Published by Innovative Healthcare Institute.
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ISSN 2589-9449Verify ISSN ↗2666-2353Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Innovative Healthcare Institute
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 14 / 55 | 75th | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 210 / 466 | 55th | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 174 / 330 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.8.
Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare is Q1 in Nursing (miscellaneous) (rank 14 of 55), Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 210 of 466) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 174 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare 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 2.8, quartile Q1, 75th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.537, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,400 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.
Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare is published by Innovative Healthcare Institute. Its print ISSN is 2589-9449 and its online ISSN is 2666-2353.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 3.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 53 Scopus journals in Nursing (miscellaneous).
Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 48. 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 89 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (36%), Ghana (9.1%) and United States (8.2%).
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.
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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