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Health and Social Care Chaplaincy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6). Published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 2051-5553Verify ISSN ↗2051-5561Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 37 / 760 | 95th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 181 / 387 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 181 / 315 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 37 of 760), Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 181 of 387) and Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 181 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy 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 2.6, quartile Q1, 95th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.470, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy is published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2051-5553 and its online ISSN is 2051-5561.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 1.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 53. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (40.1%), Australia (17.3%) and United States (13.4%).
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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