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Value in Health

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1998

ISSN1098-3015eISSN1524-4733

SJR Q1✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.626

H-Indexi

167

SNIPi

1.784

Total Worksi

77,996

Total Citationsi

215,335

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.24

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Economics; Health Care Sciences & Services; Health Policy & Services; Health Policy; Medicine (miscellaneous); Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1998

FrequencyMonthly, 2018-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications77,996

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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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

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1098-3015 / 1524-4733

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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

4.3k

9.4k

2019

3.7k

7.6k

2020

1.4k

6.2k

2021

5.4k

7.9k

2022

4.7k

2.8k

2023

2.6k

2024

4.8k

884

2025

2.1k

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 PolicyQ1

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

EconomicsHealth Care Sciences & ServicesHealth Policy & Services

Scopus Categories

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine (miscellaneous)Health Policy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifePharmaceutical Economics and PolicyEconomic and Financial Impacts of CancerMedication Adherence and CompliancePharmaceutical studies and practicesHealthcare Policy and ManagementPharmaceutical Practices and Patient OutcomesBiosimilars and Bioanalytical MethodsGlobal Health Care IssuesDiabetes Treatment and Management

Frequently asked questions about Value in Health

Is Value in Health a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Value in Health: 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 Value in Health?

Value in Health 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. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.24.

Is Value in Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Value in Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Value in Health?