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International Journal of Care and Caring is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 2397-8821Verify ISSN ↗2397-883XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 455 / 1530 | 70th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 165 / 387 | 57th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 365 / 725 | 49th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 175 / 330 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
International Journal of Care and Caring is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 455 of 1530), Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 165 of 387) and Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 365 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Care and Caring 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.360, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
International Journal of Care and Caring is published by Policy Press. Its print ISSN is 2397-8821 and its online ISSN is 2397-883X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Care and Caring has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 1.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #594 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
International Journal of Care and Caring published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 71. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (25.4%), Finland (11.2%) and Canada (10.3%).
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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