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Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Dove Medical Press Ltd.
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ISSN 1179-1594Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dove Medical Press Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 127 / 330 | 61st | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 285 / 725 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is Q2 in Health Policy (rank 127 of 330) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 285 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.675, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,836 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.
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is published by Dove Medical Press Ltd. Its ISSN is 1179-1594.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy has an h-index of 71 and a 2-year mean of 3.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy published 310 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 474. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (56%), Somalia (8.4%) and Saudi Arabia (6.3%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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.
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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