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Blockchain in Healthcare Today

Partners in Digital Health · United States · Est. 2018

ISSN2573-8240

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

/ 100

High Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ Scopus Q3+12

✓ DOAJ Verified+15

Total37

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 ↗

SJR Score

0.476

H-Index

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

0.631

Total Works

200

Total Citations

1,383

2yr Mean Citedness

1.98

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Aims & Scope

Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) is a leading international, peer reviewed scholarly journal publishing original research and critical reviews on decentralized and platform based digital infrastructures in healthcare and life sciences. The journal emphasizes theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions that advance healthcare informatics, distributed systems engineering, and data governance. Fields of interest include blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in healthcare; decentralized and artificial intelligence systems; interoperability and health data exchange; privacy preserving computation and cryptographic methods; clinical trials infrastructure and decentralized research coordination (DeSci); healthcare supply chain and provenance systems; tokenized incentive, payment, and funding mechanisms; regulatory, ethical, and policy frameworks for decentralized health systems; and rigorous evaluations of system performance, adoption, limitations, and failures.

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

weeks to review

Average · median is 15 wks

SJR Rank

Top 75% in field

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2018

Annual Volume~ 29 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications200

OA Since2017

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

Review Time~12 weeks

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCC BY-NC

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoPMC

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/12 · 83%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Partners in Digital Health

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2573-8240

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

✅

Long-term digital preservation?

Portico, PMC

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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

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

2019

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2023

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2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Computer Science ApplicationsQ3

Health Information ManagementQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Health Information ManagementComputer Science Applications

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Blockchain Technology Applications and SecurityArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationElectronic Health Records SystemsArtificial Intelligence in HealthcarePharmaceutical Economics and PolicyPharmaceutical Quality and CounterfeitingPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in DataEthics in Clinical ResearchFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital FinanceIoT and Edge/Fog Computing