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SSM - Qualitative Research in Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2667-3215Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 98 / 744 | 86th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 76 / 387 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 98 of 744) and Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 76 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
SSM - Qualitative Research in 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.033, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,720 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.
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2667-3215.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 2.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health published 175 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 182. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (28.1%), United Kingdom (10.9%) and Canada (10.3%).
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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