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Practice Development in Health Care is indexed in Web of Science (ESCI). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 1475-9861Verify ISSN ↗1478-2189Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chiropractics | 3 / 10 | 75th | Q1 |
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 16 / 55 | 71st | Q2 |
| Rehabilitation | 73 / 172 | 57th | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 114 / 257 | 55th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 173 / 340 | 49th | Q3 |
| Rheumatology | 46 / 77 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2008–2009).
Practice Development in Health Care 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.518, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
Practice Development in Health Care is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1475-9861 and its online ISSN is 1478-2189.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Practice Development in Health Care has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1.
Practice Development in Health Care published 32 papers in 2009; its busiest recent year was 2004 with 56. 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.
Scopus status: Inactive — coverage ended 2009. 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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