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Healthcare (Switzerland)

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · Switzerland · Est. 2013

ISSN2227-9032eISSN2227-9032

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2024-10-21). 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 ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.86

H-Indexi

112

SNIPi

0.994

Total Worksi

15,676

Total Citationsi

159,590

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.75

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Care Sciences & Services; Health Policy & Services; Leadership and Management; Health Informatics; Health Information Management; Health Policy.

General Information

Country / RegionSwitzerland

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2013

FrequencyQuarterly, 2014-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications15,676

Publisher OrgMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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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

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2227-9032 / 2227-9032

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, 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

172

5.8k

2019

600

16k

2020

1.8k

35k

2021

2.6k

39k

2022

3.2k

40k

2023

2.6k

18k

2024

3.4k

11k

2025

2.7k

644

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.

Leadership and ManagementQ1

Health InformaticsQ2

Health Information ManagementQ2

Health PolicyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & ServicesHealth Policy & Services

Scopus Categories

Health Information ManagementLeadership and ManagementHealth InformaticsHealth Policy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

COVID-19 and Mental HealthHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationHealth disparities and outcomesPhysical Activity and HealthMobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsStroke Rehabilitation and RecoveryPalliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesNutrition and Health in AgingHealth and Wellbeing Research

Frequently asked questions about Healthcare (Switzerland)

Is Healthcare (Switzerland) a predatory journal?

Healthcare (Switzerland) was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2024-10-21). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Healthcare (Switzerland)?

Healthcare (Switzerland) 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 2.75.

Is Healthcare (Switzerland) indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Healthcare (Switzerland) is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Healthcare (Switzerland)?