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Human Factors in Healthcare is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2772-5014Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (all) | 7 / 23 | 71st | Q2 |
| Human Factors and Ergonomics | 21 / 48 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Human Factors in Healthcare is Q2 in Health Professions (all) (rank 7 of 23) and Q2 in Human Factors and Ergonomics (rank 21 of 48), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Factors in Healthcare 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.585, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 9.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,750 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.
Human Factors in Healthcare is published by Elsevier Inc. Its ISSN is 2772-5014.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Human Factors in Healthcare has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 23 Scopus journals in Health Professions (all).
Human Factors in Healthcare published 32 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (58.2%), Ireland (6.5%) and Canada (6.2%). 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.
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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