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Operations Research for Health Care

Elsevier B.V. · United Kingdom · Est. 2012

ISSN2211-6923eISSN2211-6923

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.413

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.805

Total Worksi

337

Total Citationsi

7,145

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.62

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Care Sciences & Services; Health Professions (miscellaneous); Oral Surgery; Surgery; Management Science and Operations Research; Medicine (miscellaneous); Otorhinolaryngology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2012

Annual Volume~ 14 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2024)

Total Publications337

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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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?

Elsevier B.V.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2211-6923 / 2211-6923

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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

1.1k

2017

696

2018

509

2019

175

2020

241

2021

118

2022

2023

2024

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 Professions (miscellaneous)Q2

Oral SurgeryQ2

SurgeryQ2

Management Science and Operations ResearchQ3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

OtorhinolaryngologyQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & Services

Scopus Categories

Oral SurgerySurgeryManagement Science and Operations ResearchHealth Professions (miscellaneous)OtorhinolaryngologyMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Healthcare Operations and Scheduling OptimizationHealthcare Policy and ManagementDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationEducational Robotics and EngineeringHospital Admissions and OutcomesScheduling and Timetabling SolutionsFacility Location and Emergency ManagementVehicle Routing Optimization MethodsEmergency and Acute Care Studies

Frequently asked questions about Operations Research for Health Care

Is Operations Research for Health Care a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Operations Research for Health Care: 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 Operations Research for Health Care?

Operations Research for Health Care 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 1.62.

Is Operations Research for Health Care indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Operations Research for Health Care is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Operations Research for Health Care?