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Permanente Journal

The Permanente Federation LLC · United States · Est. 1987

ISSN1552-5767

SJR Q1✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2017-01-04). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is not open access. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 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

1.168

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.808

Total Worksi

3,325

Total Citationsi

35,181

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.24

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Policy; Health (social science); Medicine (miscellaneous); Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1987

Annual Volume~ 82 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,325

Publisher OrgThe Permanente Press

Visit Journal Website

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

The Permanente Federation LLC

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1552-5767

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, PubMed

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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?

N/A

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

249

2.9k

2019

171

1.3k

2020

105

566

2021

848

2022

1.2k

2023

575

2024

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 PolicyQ1

Health (social science)Q1

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ1

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

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

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationPrimary Care and Health OutcomesEmpathy and Medical EducationHealthcare Policy and ManagementMathematics, Computing, and Information ProcessingInnovations in Medical EducationLegal Cases and CommentaryPalliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesPatient-Provider Communication in Healthcare

Frequently asked questions about Permanente Journal

Is Permanente Journal a predatory journal?

Permanente Journal was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is not open access" (2017-01-04). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Permanente Journal?

Permanente Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 1.168.

Is Permanente Journal indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Permanente Journal is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Permanente Journal?