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Journal of Health System Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences(IUMS).
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ISSN 2322-5564Verify ISSN ↗2783-4093Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences(IUMS)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 355 / 387 | 8th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 674 / 725 | 7th | Q4 |
| Environmental Engineering | 225 / 241 | 6th | Q4 |
| Epidemiology | 163 / 173 | 6th | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 313 / 330 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of Health System Research is Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 355 of 387), Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 674 of 725) and Q4 in Environmental Engineering (rank 225 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Health System Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.151, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Health System Research is published by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences(IUMS). Its print ISSN is 2322-5564 and its online ISSN is 2783-4093.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Health System Research has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #358 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Journal of Health System Research published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 41. 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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