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International Journal for Quality in Health Care is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1353-4505Verify ISSN ↗1464-3677Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,686 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 319 / 725 | 56th | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 155 / 330 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 319 of 725) and Q2 in Health Policy (rank 155 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.683, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 116.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,686 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.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1353-4505 and its online ISSN is 1464-3677.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care has an h-index of 146 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #282 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care published 140 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 374. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Australia (14.5%), United Kingdom (8.3%) and Taiwan (7.8%).
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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