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Health Systems and Reform is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2328-8604Verify ISSN ↗2328-8620Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 139 / 725 | 80th | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 55 / 168 | 67th | Q2 |
| Health Information Management | 24 / 64 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Health Systems and Reform is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 139 of 725), Q2 in Health Informatics (rank 55 of 168) and Q2 in Health Information Management (rank 24 of 64), by CiteScore 2025.
Health Systems and Reform 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.862, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,306 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 Systems and Reform is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2328-8604 and its online ISSN is 2328-8620.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Health Systems and Reform has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 4.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Health Systems and Reform published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 47. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.5%), Switzerland (7%) and Japan (5.3%).
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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