Journal profile · Health Care Sciences & Services
Evaluation & the Health Professions
ISSN 0163-2787 · eISSN 1552-3918 · SAGE Publications Inc. · UNITED STATES · Quarterly · Founded 1978
Evaluation & the Health Professions: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.88; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,150; review about 109 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); community-reported acceptance: easy; 38 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Evaluation & the Health Professions is published by SAGE Publications Inc. and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovations in Medical Education, Healthcare Policy and Management and Health Policy Implementation Science, together about 27.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Evaluation & the Health Professions is a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal that provides health-related professionals with state-of-the-art methodological, measurement, and statistical tools for conceptualizing the etiology of health promotion and problems, and developing, implementing, and evaluating health programs, teaching and … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 27, Taiwan, China 2, Spain 2, Canada 2, Hong Kong, China 1 (41 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine12%
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.7%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions6.5%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions6.5%
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsMedicine6.3%
- Patient Satisfaction in HealthcareHealth Professions6.1%
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.8%
- Evaluation and Performance AssessmentDecision Sciences4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.88LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.73LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.87LetPub ·
- h-index
- 49LetPub ·
- h-index
- 82OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 721OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.92OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 26.36%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 34LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,594 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 9 | 7 |
| 2025 | 38 | 21 | 41 |
| 2024 | 59 | 33 | 326 |
| 2023 | 46 | 25 | 305 |
| 2022 | 37 | 11 | 278 |
| 2021 | 42 | 18 | 739 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
109 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports over 12 weeks
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 38 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 109 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 10,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted12
- articlesArticles: Important empirical, review, or theoretical contributions; 20-40 text pages in length (5000-10,000 words; max. 200 word Abstract; no more than 3 table…Length not stated
- book reviewThe editor welcomes the submission of original data-based or review articles, and brief reports, pertaining to the philosophical, technical and political aspect…Length not stated
- book reviewsBook Reviews: May be published, if relevant to the breadth of work published in the journal. The length of journal reviews range between 250 and 500 words, and …Length not stated
- brief reportThe editor welcomes the submission of original data-based or review articles, and brief reports, pertaining to the philosophical, technical and political aspect…Length not stated
- brief reportsBrief Reports: Replication studies or other contributions that are rigorous in design, but narrower in scope than work suitable for a regular article; approxima…Length not stated
- commentariesCommentaries: Debate or critical commentary on an article that appeared in the Journal or in the media; approximately 6 total pages in length (1500 words; no Ab…Length not stated
- commentaryThe editor welcomes the submission of original data-based or review articles, and brief reports, pertaining to the philosophical, technical and political aspect…Length not stated
- letters to the editorThe editor welcomes the submission of original data-based or review articles, and brief reports, pertaining to the philosophical, technical and political aspect…Length not stated
- notes from the fieldNotes from the Field: Very novel contributions that are too limited in scope for a regular article, but still are rigorLength not stated
- regular articleThe editor welcomes the submission of original data-based or review articles, and brief reports, pertaining to the philosophical, technical and political aspect…Length not stated
- reviewThe editor welcomes the submission of original data-based or review articles, and brief reports, pertaining to the philosophical, technical and political aspect…Length not stated
- review articleThe editor welcomes the submission of original data-based or review articles, and brief reports, pertaining to the philosophical, technical and political aspect…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
Research data sharing policy; authors encouraged to share data in public repository, include data availability statement, cite data Model summary
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
COPE member Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, the following fees apply: $800 for the first image, $200 for subsequent images Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Acc…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints not accepted Model summary
The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract. The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are regi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1978
- ISSN
- 0163-2787
- Electronic ISSN
- 1552-3918
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Evaluation & the Health Professions
What CAS zone is Evaluation & the Health Professions in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Evaluation & the Health Professions is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services / Health Policy & Services. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Evaluation & the Health Professions?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.88; CiteScore 4.2, h-index 82.
How long does peer review take at Evaluation & the Health Professions?
The publisher reports about 109 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 7%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Evaluation & the Health Professions?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 10,000 words; Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Evaluation & the Health Professions based?
Of the 41 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (27), Taiwan, China (2) and Spain (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Evaluation & the Health Professions?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Evaluation & the Health Professions is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Is Evaluation & the Health Professions open access, and what is the APC?
Evaluation & the Health Professions is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,150.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-30). Last updated: .