Healthcare Quarterly

ISSN 1710-2774 · Longwoods Publishing · Canada · active 1997–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
0.6
SJR
0.288
h-index
53

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 25 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Healthcare Quarterly is Q1 in 1 of its 2 subject categories and Q3 in the other 1. Its best category quartile is Q1.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Healthcare Quarterly in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Emergency Medical ServicesQ1#4 of 18
Health PolicyQ3#230 of 334
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
0.47
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
59

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Healthcare Quarterly is Q1 in 1 of its 2 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Emergency Medical Services: Q1, #4 of 18), with SJR 0.288 (Scimago) and an h-index of 53 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

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Access status:
subscription. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

primarycarehealthoutcomesprofessionshealthcarepolicymanagementeconomicseconometricsqualityinformation

Frequently asked

Is Healthcare Quarterly a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Healthcare Quarterly. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Healthcare Quarterly indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Healthcare Quarterly appears in: Scopus, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Healthcare Quarterly?

Papers in Healthcare Quarterly are cited about 0.6 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 53. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Healthcare Quarterly (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Healthcare Quarterly is Q1 in 1 of its 2 subject categories and Q3 in the other 1. By category: Emergency Medical Services: Q1, #4 of 18; Health Policy: Q3, #230 of 334. Its best category quartile is Q1. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Healthcare Quarterly is cited about 0.6 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 53.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Healthcare Quarterly?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Healthcare Quarterly. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q1 in Emergency Medical Services, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Healthcare Quarterly open access?

Our index records its access status as "subscription". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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