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Health Security

Mary Ann Liebert Inc. · United States · Est. 1989

ISSN2326-5108

SJR Q2✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.42

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.768

Total Worksi

824

Total Citationsi

8,745

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.93

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Emergency Medicine; Safety Research; Health (social science); Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1989

Annual Volume~ 70 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications824

Publisher OrgMary Ann Liebert, Inc.

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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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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2326-5108

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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?

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

916

2019

109

1.8k

2020

1.1k

2021

525

2022

369

2023

127

2024

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.

Emergency MedicineQ2

Safety ResearchQ2

Health (social science)Q3

Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisQ3

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ3

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawSafety ResearchPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEmergency MedicineHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisHealth (social science)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Viral Infections and Outbreaks ResearchDisaster Response and ManagementBacillus and Francisella bacterial researchPublic Health Policies and EducationZoonotic diseases and public healthCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesDisaster Management and ResilienceData-Driven Disease SurveillanceVaccine Coverage and HesitancyAnimal Disease Management and Epidemiology

Frequently asked questions about Health Security

Is Health Security a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Health Security: 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 Health Security?

Health Security 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 0.93.

Is Health Security indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Health Security is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.