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Journal of Hospital Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1553-5592Verify ISSN ↗1553-5606Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care Planning | 3 / 11 | 77th | Q1 |
| Assessment and Diagnosis | 4 / 11 | 68th | Q2 |
| Fundamentals and Skills | 6 / 15 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Leadership and Management | 16 / 41 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 166 / 330 | 49th | Q3 |
| Internal Medicine | 94 / 179 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Hospital Medicine is Q1 in Care Planning (rank 3 of 11), Q2 in Assessment and Diagnosis (rank 4 of 11) and Q2 in Fundamentals and Skills (rank 6 of 15), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Hospital Medicine is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.904, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 91.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Hospital Medicine is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1553-5592 and its online ISSN is 1553-5606.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Hospital Medicine has an h-index of 104 and a 2-year mean of 1.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1.
Journal of Hospital Medicine published 288 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 334. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (85.5%), Australia (5%) and Canada (3.5%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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