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Health Professions Education

· Saudi Arabia · Est. 2015

ISSN2452-3011

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.212

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.318

Total Worksi

391

Total Citationsi

5,732

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.74

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education; Nursing (miscellaneous); Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionSaudi Arabia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2015

Annual Volume~ 48 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications391

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

OA Since2014

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer ReviewPeer review

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Portico

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

N/A

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2452-3011

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Peer review

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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

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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

1.3k

2018

355

2019

813

2020

2022

2023

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.

EducationQ3

Nursing (miscellaneous)Q3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Nursing (miscellaneous)Medicine (miscellaneous)Education

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Innovations in Medical EducationClinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsMedical Education and AdmissionsProblem and Project Based LearningHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutInterprofessional Education and CollaborationEmpathy and Medical EducationDiversity and Career in MedicineEducation and Critical Thinking DevelopmentRadiology practices and education

Frequently asked questions about Health Professions Education

Is Health Professions Education a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Health Professions Education: it is indexed in 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 Professions Education?

Health Professions Education is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.212.

Is Health Professions Education indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Health Professions Education is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Health Professions Education?