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MDM Policy and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 2381-4683Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 124 / 330 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 277 / 725 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
MDM Policy and Practice is Q2 in Health Policy (rank 124 of 330) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 277 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
MDM Policy and Practice 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.082, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
MDM Policy and Practice is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its ISSN is 2381-4683.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
MDM Policy and Practice has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 1.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
MDM Policy and Practice published 44 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (49.6%), Canada (9.8%) and United Kingdom (8.5%).
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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