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Health and Human Rights is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Harvard School of Public Health.
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ISSN 1079-0969Verify ISSN ↗2150-4113Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Harvard School of Public Health
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 214 / 745 | 71st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 471 / 1530 | 69th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 176 / 387 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2006, 2003–2004, 1994–2001), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Health and Human Rights is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 214 of 745), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 471 of 1530) and Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 176 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Health and Human Rights 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.499, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 49.
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.
Health and Human Rights is published by Harvard School of Public Health. Its print ISSN is 1079-0969 and its online ISSN is 2150-4113.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Health and Human Rights has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #648 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Health and Human Rights published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 32. 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.
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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