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Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Joint Commission Resources, Inc..
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ISSN 1553-7250Verify ISSN ↗1938-131XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Joint Commission Resources, Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,510 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dermatology | 45 / 152 | 70th | Q2 |
| Pediatrics | 9 / 28 | 69th | Q2 |
| Leadership and Management | 13 / 41 | 69th | Q2 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) | 15 / 43 | 66th | Q2 |
| Gastroenterology | 84 / 176 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 79 / 165 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Immunology and Allergy | 150 / 234 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety is Q2 in Dermatology (rank 45 of 152), Q2 in Pediatrics (rank 9 of 28) and Q2 in Leadership and Management (rank 13 of 41), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.915, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 92.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,510 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.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety is published by Joint Commission Resources, Inc. Its print ISSN is 1553-7250 and its online ISSN is 1938-131X.
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.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 144 Scopus journals in Dermatology.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety published 112 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 153. 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 72 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.4%), Canada (3.1%) and Netherlands (2.8%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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