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MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC · US

ISSN0272-989XeISSN1552-681X

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.907

H-Indexi

129

SNIPi

1.353

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Care Sciences & Services; Health Policy & Services; Medical Informatics; Health Policy.

General Information

Country / RegionUS

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 91 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications—

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0272-989X / 1552-681X

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

100

2019

104

2.7k

2020

137

3.5k

2021

823

2022

429

2023

103

310

2024

100

172

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Health PolicyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & ServicesHealth Policy & ServicesMedical Informatics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifePatient-Provider Communication in HealthcareHealthcare Policy and ManagementEconomic and Environmental ValuationDecision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsClinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsHealthcare cost, quality, practicesMeta-analysis and systematic reviewsStatistical Methods in Clinical TrialsGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening

Frequently asked questions about MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Is MEDICAL DECISION MAKING a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for MEDICAL DECISION MAKING: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of MEDICAL DECISION MAKING?

MEDICAL DECISION MAKING is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date.

Is MEDICAL DECISION MAKING indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

MEDICAL DECISION MAKING is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of MEDICAL DECISION MAKING?