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Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 2333-3928Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 64 / 330 | 80th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 43 / 173 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 64 of 330) and Q1 in Epidemiology (rank 43 of 173), by CiteScore 2025.
Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.640, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
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 Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its ISSN is 2333-3928.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 13.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology published 25 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 42. 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 (2021–2024), authors are most often from United States (39.7%), Ethiopia (30.6%) and Iran (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (14.8 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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