Journal profile · HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES
Health Care Management Review
ISSN 0361-6274 · eISSN 1550-5030 · Wolters Kluwer Health
Health Care Management Review: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.09; JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; median 280 days to acceptance (51 articles, last 24 months); 40 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Health Care Management Review is published by Wolters Kluwer Health 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 Healthcare Policy and Management, Primary Care and Health Outcomes and Healthcare Quality and Management, together about 44.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
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From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES
Editor-in-chief Cheryl RathertPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance24.4%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions10.3%
- Healthcare Quality and ManagementHealth Professions9.6%
- Patient Satisfaction in HealthcareHealth Professions4.2%
- Leadership and Management in OrganizationsBusiness, Management and Accounting4.1%
- Interprofessional Education and CollaborationHealth Professions3.9%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions3.7%
- Organizational Strategy and CultureBusiness, Management and Accounting3.1%
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 Policy & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 2 |
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 Policy & Services | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES · rank 49/125
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 2.09LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.87LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.17LetPub ·
- h-index
- 96OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,046OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.65OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 22.22%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,704 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 41 | 15 | 15 |
| 2025 | 40 | 9 | 47 |
| 2024 | 32 | 10 | 125 |
| 2023 | 36 | 10 | 282 |
| 2022 | 28 | 9 | 295 |
| 2021 | 25 | 11 | 377 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
280 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 233 days – 332 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 71 days (43 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 371 days
- Sample
- 51 articles with submission and acceptance dates (88 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
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.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer Health
- ISSN
- 0361-6274
- Electronic ISSN
- 1550-5030
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 51, Issue 4 (December 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Health Care Management Review
What CAS zone is Health Care Management Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Health Care Management Review is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Policy & Services. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Health Care Management Review?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.09; CiteScore 4.8, h-index 96.
How long does peer review take at Health Care Management Review?
Based on the dates recorded on 51 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 280 days (interquartile range 233–332 days). 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 JCR quartile is Health Care Management Review in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2; by category, HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES Q2 (49/125). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Medicine.
Which databases index Health Care Management Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Health Care Management Review is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Health Care Management Review open access, and what is the APC?
Health Care Management Review is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .