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Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 2673-6136Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 450 / 725 | 37th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 209 / 330 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 450 of 725) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 209 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.283, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research is published by S. Karger AG. Its ISSN is 2673-6136.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #426 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 28. 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 38 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (81.6%), Egypt (5.3%) and Canada (2.6%). 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.
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