Journal profile · Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Health Expectations
ISSN 1369-6513 · eISSN 1369-7625 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · ENGLAND · Quarterly · Founded 1998
Health Expectations: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.33; fully open access; APC about USD 4,610; median 123 days to acceptance (114 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 401 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Health Expectations is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare and Health Policy Implementation Science, together about 44.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Health Expectations is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices. The Journal provides an inter-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers (including PPIE researchers) from a range of backgrounds and expertise can present their work to other researchers, policy-makers, health care professionals, managers, patients and consumer advocates. Person-centred care and quality improvement Patients' participation in decisions about disease prevention and management Public perceptions of health services Citizen involvement in health care policy making and priority-setting Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation Empowerment and consumerism Patients' role in safety and quality Patient and public role in health services research Co-production (researchers working with patients and the public) of research, health care and policy Health Expectations is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices. The Journal provides an inter-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers (including PPIE researchers) from a range of backgrounds and expertise can present their work to other researchers, policy-makers, health care professionals, managers, patients and consumer advocates. Abstracting and Indexing Information Abstracts in Anthropology (Sage) Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Elite (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing) CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (EBSCO Publishing) Current Contents: Clinical Medicine (Clarivate Analytics) Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Health Source Nursing/Academic (EBSCO Publishing) Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM) Open Access Journal Index – OAJ (NSLC & CEPIEC) PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA) PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset (NLM) Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Soci
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Editor-in-chief Carolyn Chew-Graham GPPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named United Kingdom 29, Australia 15, Canada 10, United States 5, Sweden 3 (82 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Mental Health and Patient InvolvementHealth Professions20.6%
- Patient-Provider Communication in HealthcareHealth Professions16.4%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions7.7%
- Health Literacy and Information AccessibilityHealth Professions4.5%
- Patient Satisfaction in HealthcareHealth Professions4.2%
- Diabetes Management and EducationMedicine3.9%
- Participatory Visual Research MethodsSocial Sciences3.9%
- Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningMedicine3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | 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 2 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPMCPsycINFOCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 3.33LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.4Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.22LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.38LetPub ·
- h-index
- 61LetPub ·
- h-index
- 133OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,975OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.37OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 14.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 373LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 382Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 1,457,532Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,879 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 353 | 353 | 138 |
| 2025 | 401 | 401 | 1,088 |
| 2024 | 367 | 367 | 2,552 |
| 2023 | 273 | 273 | 3,547 |
| 2022 | 278 | 278 | 5,085 |
| 2021 | 243 | 243 | 6,846 |
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
123 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 90 days – 179 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 19 days (114 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 153 days
- Sample
- 114 articles with submission and acceptance dates (844 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".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 27%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 27%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 134 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 16 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 4,610 / GBP 2,660 / EUR 4,050 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 4,190 / EUR 3,680 / GBP 2,660 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 3,630 / GBP 2,310 / EUR 3,190 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 4
Article types accepted3
- editorialInvited Review Articles, Letters to the Editor, and Editorials are exempt from the Article Publication Charge.Length not stated
- letters to the editorInvited Review Articles, Letters to the Editor, and Editorials are exempt from the Article Publication Charge.Length not stated
- review articleInvited Review Articles, Letters to the Editor, and Editorials are exempt from the Article Publication Charge.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Peer review
- Authorship Correction to authorship
In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, Health Expectations will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 1. Submission and Peer Review Process
New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal: https://authors.wiley.com/journal/HEX.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1998
- ISSN
- 1369-6513
- Electronic ISSN
- 1369-7625
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 29, Issue 5 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Health Expectations
What CAS zone is Health Expectations in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Health Expectations is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Health Policy & Services / Public, Environmental & Occupational Health / Health Care Sciences & 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 Expectations?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.33; CiteScore 5.2, h-index 133.
How long does peer review take at Health Expectations?
Based on the dates recorded on 114 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 123 days (interquartile range 90–179 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 27% (2025). 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 Health Expectations?
According to the journal's author guidelines: First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 4. 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 Health Expectations based?
Of the 82 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 1%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (29), Australia (15) and Canada (10). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Health Expectations?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Health Expectations is indexed in SCIE, SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PMC, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Health Expectations open access, and what is the APC?
Health Expectations is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 4,610.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .