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Leadership in Health Services

Emerald Publishing · United Kingdom · Est. 2007

ISSN1751-1879eISSN1751-1887

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 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

0.549

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.922

Total Worksi

832

Total Citationsi

12,106

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.22

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Policy & Services; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous); Health Policy.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2007

Annual Volume~ 39 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications832

Publisher OrgEmerald Publishing Limited

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?

Emerald Publishing

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1751-1879 / 1751-1887

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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

439

2019

473

2020

759

2021

403

2022

364

2023

147

2024

153

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.

Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Q2

Health PolicyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Policy & Services

Scopus Categories

Health PolicyBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Healthcare Quality and ManagementJob Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorNursing education and managementPrimary Care and Health OutcomesInnovations in Medical EducationInterprofessional Education and CollaborationManagement and Organizational StudiesHealthcare Policy and ManagementQuality and Supply ManagementHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout

Frequently asked questions about Leadership in Health Services

Is Leadership in Health Services a predatory journal?

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

Leadership in Health Services 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 2.22.

Is Leadership in Health Services indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Leadership in Health Services is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Leadership in Health Services?