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Journal of Research in Health Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2228-7795Verify ISSN ↗2228-7809Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hamadan University of Medical Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 351 / 725 | 51st | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 172 / 330 | 48th | Q3 |
| Epidemiology | 91 / 173 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Research in Health Sciences is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 351 of 725), Q3 in Health Policy (rank 172 of 330) and Q3 in Epidemiology (rank 91 of 173), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Research in Health Sciences is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.569, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
Journal of Research in Health Sciences is published by Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2228-7795 and its online ISSN is 2228-7809.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Research in Health Sciences has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #244 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Journal of Research in Health Sciences published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 48. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Iran (53.8%), Indonesia (13.1%) and India (6.4%). 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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