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Journal of Correctional Health Care is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SSCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1078-3458Verify ISSN ↗1940-5200Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and Home Care | 22 / 40 | 46th | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 481 / 725 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Correctional Health Care is Q3 in Community and Home Care (rank 22 of 40) and Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 481 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Correctional Health Care is indexed in the 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.438, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 37.
Journal of Correctional Health Care is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1078-3458 and its online ISSN is 1940-5200.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Correctional Health Care has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 1.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 39 Scopus journals in Community and Home Care.
Journal of Correctional Health Care published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 69. 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 79 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (84%), Canada (5.7%) and United Kingdom (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. 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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