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International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4). Published by Coventry University.
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ISSN 2051-6223Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Coventry University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 39 / 101 | 61st | Q2 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 285 / 466 | 38th | Q3 |
| Research and Theory | 14 / 22 | 38th | Q3 |
| Education | 1060 / 1698 | 37th | Q3 |
| Fundamentals and Skills | 12 / 15 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care is Q2 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 39 of 101), Q3 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 285 of 466) and Q3 in Research and Theory (rank 14 of 22), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.153, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care is published by Coventry University. Its ISSN is 2051-6223.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 33. 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 69 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (46.1%), Australia (21.3%) and Canada (5.8%).
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.
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