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Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 1049-2089Verify ISSN ↗1548-6869Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 459 / 725 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 459 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.518, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 80.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 1049-2089 and its online ISSN is 1548-6869.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved has an h-index of 96 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #445 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved published 118 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 200. 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.
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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