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Health and Justice

BioMed Central Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2003

ISSN2194-7899eISSN2194-7899

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

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.828

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.285

Total Worksi

414

Total Citationsi

6,088

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.09

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Criminology & Penology; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Law; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2003

FrequencyTen Issues Per Year, 2015-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications414

Publisher OrgBioMed Central

OA Since2012

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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

CLOCKSSLibrary of CongressLOCKSSPorticoPMC

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

BioMed Central Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2194-7899 / 2194-7899

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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, Library of Congress, LOCKSS, Portico, 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

612

2019

648

2020

728

2021

569

2022

535

2023

250

2024

195

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.

LawQ1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Criminology & PenologyPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

LawPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Criminal Justice and Corrections AnalysisPsychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual OffendingSubstance Abuse Treatment and OutcomesOpioid Use Disorder TreatmentHIV, Drug Use, Sexual RiskHomelessness and Social IssuesChild Abuse and TraumaHealth Policy Implementation ScienceSuicide and Self-Harm StudiesPrenatal Substance Exposure Effects

Frequently asked questions about Health and Justice

Is Health and Justice a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Health and Justice: 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 and Justice?

Health and Justice 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 2.09.

Is Health and Justice indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Health and Justice is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Health and Justice?