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Quality Management in Health Care is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd..
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ISSN 1063-8628Verify ISSN ↗1550-5154Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care Planning | 5 / 11 | 59th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 208 / 387 | 46th | Q3 |
| Leadership and Management | 24 / 41 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 199 / 330 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Quality Management in Health Care is Q2 in Care Planning (rank 5 of 11), Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 208 of 387) and Q3 in Leadership and Management (rank 24 of 41), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Quality Management in Health Care is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.536, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
Quality Management in Health Care is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1063-8628 and its online ISSN is 1550-5154.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Quality Management in Health Care has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #241 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Quality Management in Health Care published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 73. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (64.9%), China (5.7%) and India (5.7%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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