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Journal of Communication in Healthcare is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Maney Publishing.
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ISSN 1753-8068Verify ISSN ↗1753-8076Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 174 / 541 | 67th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 357 / 725 | 50th | Q2 |
| Health Information Management | 43 / 64 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Communication in Healthcare is Q2 in Communication (rank 174 of 541), Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 357 of 725) and Q3 in Health Information Management (rank 43 of 64), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Communication 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.434, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Journal of Communication in Healthcare is published by Maney Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1753-8068 and its online ISSN is 1753-8076.
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.
Journal of Communication in Healthcare has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 1.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #178 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Journal of Communication in Healthcare published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 56. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (63.9%), Canada (3.1%) and Germany (2.6%). 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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