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Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2532-2044Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 265 / 466 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 474 / 725 | 34th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 221 / 330 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare is Q3 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 265 of 466), Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 474 of 725) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 221 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare 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 1.7, quartile Q3, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.309, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$900 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.
Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2532-2044.
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.
Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #190 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 25. 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 80 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (57.7%), United Kingdom (8.1%) and Canada (5.8%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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