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JAMA Health Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by American Medical Association.
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ISSN 2689-0186Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Medical Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 23 / 330 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 58 / 725 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.9.
JAMA Health Forum is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 23 of 330) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 58 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
JAMA Health Forum 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 7.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.833, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,000 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.
JAMA Health Forum is published by American Medical Association. Its ISSN is 2689-0186.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
JAMA Health Forum has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 5.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
JAMA Health Forum published 360 papers in 2025. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (90.7%), Japan (2.2%) and United Kingdom (1.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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