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Health Care Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2771-1749Verify ISSN ↗2771-1757Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 40 / 330 | 88th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 96 / 725 | 86th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 37 / 173 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Health Care Science is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 40 of 330), Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 96 of 725) and Q1 in Epidemiology (rank 37 of 173), by CiteScore 2025.
Health Care Science is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.152, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,300 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 Care Science is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 2771-1749 and its online ISSN is 2771-1757.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Health Care Science has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 4.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Health Care Science published 65 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (62%), United States (8.7%) and Brazil (3.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (15.4 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.
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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