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Operations Research for Health Care is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2211-6923Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,080 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (all) | 6 / 23 | 76th | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 121 / 466 | 74th | Q2 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 87 / 225 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Operations Research for Health Care is Q1 in Health Professions (all) (rank 6 of 23), Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 121 of 466) and Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 87 of 225), by CiteScore 2025.
Operations Research for Health Care 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 4.9, quartile Q1, 76th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.413, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,080 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.
Operations Research for Health Care is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2211-6923.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Operations Research for Health Care has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 23 Scopus journals in Health Professions (all).
Operations Research for Health Care published 13 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 49. 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 46 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from United States (19.6%), Canada (16.3%) and Brazil (10.9%).
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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