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Health Equity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 95 / 387 | 75th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 237 / 725 | 67th | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 110 / 330 | 66th | Q2 |
| Health Information Management | 35 / 64 | 46th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Health Equity is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 95 of 387), Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 237 of 725) and Q2 in Health Policy (rank 110 of 330), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Health Equity 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.976, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$950 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 Equity is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its ISSN is 2473-1242.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Health Equity has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 1.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #137 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Health Equity published 83 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 120. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (95.5%), New Zealand (1%) and Mexico (0.5%). 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. 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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