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Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), DOAJ. Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2645-6109Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kerman University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 320 / 466 | 31st | Q3 |
| Nursing (all) | 106 / 144 | 26th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 296 / 387 | 23rd | 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 Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Science is Q3 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 320 of 466), Q3 in Nursing (all) (rank 106 of 144) and Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 296 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Science 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 0.9, quartile Q3, 31st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.213, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Science is published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Its ISSN is 2645-6109.
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 Qualitative Research in Health Science has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #349 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Science published 41 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Iran (83.5%), Indonesia (5%) and India (3%). 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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