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Journal for Healthcare Quality

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · United States · Est. 1980

ISSN1945-1474

SJR Q3✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.335

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.508

Total Worksi

3,347

Total Citationsi

37,252

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.62

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

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

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1980

FrequencyBimonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,347

Publisher OrgLippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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?

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1945-1474

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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

514

2019

428

2020

250

2021

195

2022

223

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.

Health PolicyQ3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & ServicesHealth Policy & Services

Scopus Categories

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

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Healthcare Quality and ManagementHealthcare Policy and ManagementPatient Satisfaction in HealthcarePrimary Care and Health OutcomesPatient Safety and Medication ErrorsClinical practice guidelines implementationPharmacy and Medical PracticesHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeQuality and Safety in HealthcareMedical Malpractice and Liability Issues

Frequently asked questions about Journal for Healthcare Quality

Is Journal for Healthcare Quality a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal for Healthcare Quality: 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 Journal for Healthcare Quality?

Journal for Healthcare Quality 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 0.62.

Is Journal for Healthcare Quality indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal for Healthcare Quality is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal for Healthcare Quality?