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Digital Health

SAGE Publications Inc. · United Kingdom · Est. 1962

ISSN2055-2076eISSN2055-2076

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 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

0.991

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.938

Total Worksi

3,482

Total Citationsi

34,506

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.17

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Care Sciences & Services; Health Policy & Services; Medical Informatics; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Computer Science Applications; Health Information Management; Health Policy; Health Informatics.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1962

Annual Volume~ 758 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,482

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

OA Since2014

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2055-2076 / 2055-2076

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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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?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

2019

3.2k

2020

145

2.3k

2021

382

7.6k

2022

576

8.6k

2023

829

6.3k

2024

870

3.6k

2025

823

340

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.

Computer Science ApplicationsQ1

Health Information ManagementQ1

Health PolicyQ1

Health InformaticsQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & ServicesHealth Policy & ServicesMedical InformaticsPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Health Information ManagementComputer Science ApplicationsHealth InformaticsHealth Policy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health InterventionsTelemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationHealth Literacy and Information AccessibilityElectronic Health Records SystemsSocial Media in Health EducationTechnology Use by Older AdultsMachine Learning in HealthcarePhysical Activity and Health

Frequently asked questions about Digital Health

Is Digital Health a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Digital Health: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Digital Health?

Digital Health 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 3.17.

Is Digital Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Digital Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.