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Health and Social Care in the Community is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SSCI. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0966-0410Verify ISSN ↗1365-2524Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 55 / 744 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 118 / 1530 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 37 / 330 | 88th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 88 / 725 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Health and Social Care in the Community is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 55 of 744), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 118 of 1530) and Q1 in Health Policy (rank 37 of 330), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Health and Social Care in the Community 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.984, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 91.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,700 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 Social Care in the Community is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0966-0410 and its online ISSN is 1365-2524.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Health and Social Care in the Community has an h-index of 120 and a 2-year mean of 1.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Health and Social Care in the Community published 161 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 441. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (22.9%), Australia (11.9%) and China (11%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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