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Health Economics Review

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH · Germany · Est. 1975

ISSN2191-1991eISSN2191-1991

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

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.926

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.157

Total Worksi

822

Total Citationsi

14,130

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.49

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Economics; Health Policy & Services; Health Policy.

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1975

Annual Volume~ 95 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications822

Publisher OrgBioMed Central

OA Since2010

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

CLOCKSSLOCKSSPorticoKoninklijke Bibliotheek; Library of Congress; National Science Library, Chinese Academy of SciencesPMC

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2191-1991 / 2191-1991

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Double-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?

CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, Portico, Koninklijke Bibliotheek; Library of Congress; National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PMC

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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

956

2019

876

2020

946

2021

1.1k

2022

722

2023

108

739

2024

120

288

2025

125

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 PolicyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

EconomicsHealth Policy & Services

Scopus Categories

Health Policy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Healthcare Systems and ReformsHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeGlobal Health Care IssuesHealthcare Policy and ManagementGlobal Maternal and Child HealthEconomic and Financial Impacts of CancerPrimary Care and Health OutcomesPharmaceutical Economics and PolicyEconomic and Environmental ValuationHealth disparities and outcomes

Frequently asked questions about Health Economics Review

Is Health Economics Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Health Economics Review: 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 Health Economics Review?

Health Economics Review 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 2.49.

Is Health Economics Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Health Economics Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Health Economics Review?