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Health Science Reports

John Wiley & Sons Inc. · United States · Est. 1984

ISSN2398-8835eISSN2398-8835

SJR Q2✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 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

0.677

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.717

Total Worksi

4,491

Total Citationsi

23,209

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.24

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine, General & Internal; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1984

FrequencyBimonthly, 2022-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications4,491

Publisher OrgWiley

OA Since2017

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC, 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

PorticoPMCCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2398-8835 / 2398-8835

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Single-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?

Portico, PMC, CLOCKSS

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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

523

2019

1.4k

2020

229

2.4k

2021

558

6.1k

2022

748

6.8k

2023

827

5.7k

2024

1.4k

2025

1.4k

250

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.

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medicine, General & InternalPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesCOVID-19 and Mental HealthGlobal Maternal and Child HealthSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchChild Nutrition and Water AccessDiabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and LipoproteinsVaccine Coverage and HesitancyViral Infections and Outbreaks ResearchWound Healing and TreatmentsMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Frequently asked questions about Health Science Reports

Is Health Science Reports a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Health Science Reports: 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 Science Reports?

Health Science Reports 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 2.24.

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

Health Science Reports is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Health Science Reports?

Subject areas: Medicine, General & Internal; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Medicine (miscellaneous).

Health Science Reports

Aims & Scope

General Information

Submission Info

Ethics & Quality

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

Publication & Citation Trend

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Subject Classification

Frequently asked questions about Health Science Reports

Is Health Science Reports a predatory journal?

What is the impact factor of Health Science Reports?

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

What is the aims and scope of Health Science Reports?

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