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International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 2056-4902Verify ISSN ↗2056-4910Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 408 / 1530 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 148 / 387 | 61st | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 96 / 248 | 61st | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 158 / 330 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 154 / 315 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 408 of 1530), Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 148 of 387) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 96 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Human Rights 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.296, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2056-4902 and its online ISSN is 2056-4910.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #615 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 89. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (16.3%), Iran (13.8%) and Pakistan (11.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 48 retracted papers are recorded (111.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 11 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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