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Journal of Healthcare Engineering

John Wiley and Sons Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1976

ISSN2040-2295

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2023-02-21). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. 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 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.594

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.994

Total Worksi

4,113

Total Citationsi

53,342

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.62

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

1074

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

The Journal of Healthcare Engineering focuses on both fundamental and applied research in various engineering aspects related to healthcare delivery processes and systems. Its subject areas include biology, computer sciences, and health sciences, with an academic field in biotechnology and applied microbiology, surgery, medical informatics, and biomedical engineering.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1976

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications4,113

Publisher OrgHindawi Publishing Corporation

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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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2040-2295

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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

141

2019

136

3.5k

2020

929

13k

2021

1.1k

13k

2022

1.1k

1.6k

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.

Biomedical EngineeringQ2

BiotechnologyQ2

SurgeryQ2

Health InformaticsQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

BiotechnologySurgeryBiomedical EngineeringHealth Informatics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

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Frequently asked questions about Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Is Journal of Healthcare Engineering a predatory journal?

Journal of Healthcare Engineering was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2023-02-21). 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 Journal of Healthcare Engineering?

Journal of Healthcare Engineering is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.594.

Is Journal of Healthcare Engineering indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Healthcare Engineering is indexed in Scopus.