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Social Work in Health Care is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0098-1389Verify ISSN ↗1541-034XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and Home Care | 12 / 40 | 71st | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 315 / 580 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Social Work in Health Care is Q2 in Community and Home Care (rank 12 of 40) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 315 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Work in Health Care is indexed in the 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.558, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 55.
Social Work in Health Care is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0098-1389 and its online ISSN is 1541-034X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Work in Health Care has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 1.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 39 Scopus journals in Community and Home Care.
Social Work in Health Care published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 66. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (38.2%), Türkiye (10.9%) and Canada (5.7%).
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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