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HEC Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 0956-2737Verify ISSN ↗1572-8498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 11 / 53 | 80th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 103 / 387 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 116 / 330 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
HEC Forum is Q1 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 11 of 53), Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 103 of 387) and Q2 in Health Policy (rank 116 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
HEC Forum 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.442, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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.
HEC Forum is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 0956-2737 and its online ISSN is 1572-8498.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
HEC Forum has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 53 Scopus journals in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects.
HEC Forum published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 38. 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 (67.2%), Sweden (4.2%) and Netherlands (3.5%). 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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