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Healthcare (Switzerland) is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2227-9032Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Cost to publish: About US$3,258 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership and Management | 5 / 41 | 89th | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 66 / 330 | 80th | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 61 / 168 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Health Information Management | 25 / 64 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Healthcare (Switzerland) is Q1 in Leadership and Management (rank 5 of 41), Q1 in Health Policy (rank 66 of 330) and Q2 in Health Informatics (rank 61 of 168), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Healthcare (Switzerland) is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.860, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 95.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,258 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.
Healthcare (Switzerland) is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2227-9032.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Healthcare (Switzerland) has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 3.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 41 Scopus journals in Leadership and Management.
Healthcare (Switzerland) published 3,372 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 (2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (14.2%), China (12.7%) and Türkiye (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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