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Journal for Healthcare Quality is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health.
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ISSN 1062-2551Verify ISSN ↗1945-1474Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 470 / 725 | 35th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 215 / 330 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal for Healthcare Quality is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 470 of 725) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 215 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal for Healthcare Quality 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.335, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 38.
Journal for Healthcare Quality is published by Wolters Kluwer Health. Its print ISSN is 1062-2551 and its online ISSN is 1945-1474.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal for Healthcare Quality has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 1.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #407 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Journal for Healthcare Quality published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 68. 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 12 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (91.7%) and Japan (8.3%). 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.
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