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Smart Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2352-6483Verify ISSN ↗2352-6491Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,250 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 60 / 466 | 87th | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 34 / 168 | 80th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 217 / 1022 | 78th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 115 / 519 | 77th | Q1 |
| Health Information Management | 16 / 64 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Smart Health is Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 60 of 466), Q1 in Health Informatics (rank 34 of 168) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 217 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Smart Health 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 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.649, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,250 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.
Smart Health is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 2352-6483 and its online ISSN is 2352-6491.
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.
Smart Health has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 3.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Smart Health published 77 papers in 2025. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.7%), India (12.2%) and Italy (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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