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Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management

SAGE Publications Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2017

ISSN2516-0435eISSN2516-0443

SJR Q3✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.303

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.442

Total Worksi

366

Total Citationsi

1,676

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.94

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Care Sciences & Services; Health Policy & Services; Health Policy; Health (social science); Leadership and Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2017

Annual Volume~ 43 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications366

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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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?

SAGE Publications Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2516-0435 / 2516-0443

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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

328

2019

418

2020

229

2021

131

2022

128

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.

Health PolicyQ3

Health (social science)Q3

Leadership and ManagementQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & ServicesHealth Policy & Services

Scopus Categories

Leadership and ManagementHealth (social science)Health Policy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Patient Safety and Medication ErrorsMedical Malpractice and Liability IssuesHealthcare cost, quality, practicesHealthcare Quality and ManagementOccupational Health and Safety ResearchClinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsPharmaceutical Practices and Patient OutcomesEmergency and Acute Care StudiesQuality and Safety in HealthcareHospital Admissions and Outcomes

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management

Is Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management: 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 Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management?

Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management 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 0.94.

Is Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management?