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International Journal of Health Policy and Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2322-5939Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kerman University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 21 / 387 | 94th | Q1 |
| Leadership and Management | 3 / 41 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 22 / 330 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 77 / 432 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Health Information Management | 14 / 64 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
International Journal of Health Policy and Management is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 21 of 387), Q1 in Leadership and Management (rank 3 of 41) and Q1 in Health Policy (rank 22 of 330), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Health Policy and Management 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.166, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
International Journal of Health Policy and Management is published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Its ISSN is 2322-5939.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Health Policy and Management has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
International Journal of Health Policy and Management published 141 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 264. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (12.2%), United States (8.7%) and Netherlands (8.5%).
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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