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Informatics for Health and Social Care

Informa Healthcare · United Kingdom · Est. 2008

ISSN1753-8157eISSN1753-8165

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.711

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.127

Total Worksi

475

Total Citationsi

10,645

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.81

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Care Sciences & Services; Medical Informatics; Nursing (miscellaneous); Health Informatics; Health Information Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2008

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications475

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Informa Healthcare

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1753-8157 / 1753-8165

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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

245

2019

556

2020

1.3k

2021

244

2022

2023

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.

Nursing (miscellaneous)Q1

Health InformaticsQ2

Health Information ManagementQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & ServicesMedical Informatics

Scopus Categories

Health Information ManagementNursing (miscellaneous)Health Informatics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsElectronic Health Records SystemsHealth Literacy and Information AccessibilityTechnology Use by Older AdultsDigital Mental Health InterventionsContext-Aware Activity Recognition SystemsTelemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationSocial Media in Health EducationNursing Diagnosis and DocumentationHealthcare Systems and Technology

Frequently asked questions about Informatics for Health and Social Care

Is Informatics for Health and Social Care a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Informatics for Health and Social Care: 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 Informatics for Health and Social Care?

Informatics for Health and Social Care 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 0.81.

Is Informatics for Health and Social Care indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Informatics for Health and Social Care is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Informatics for Health and Social Care?