Journal profile · HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES-MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Health Informatics Journal
ISSN 1460-4582 · eISSN 1741-2811 · SAGE Publications Ltd · ENGLAND · Quarterly · Founded 1997
Health Informatics Journal: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.04; fully open access; APC about USD 2,000; review over 12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 92 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Health Informatics Journal is published by SAGE Publications Ltd and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Electronic Health Records Systems, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility, together about 35.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Health Informatics Journal is an international peer-reviewed journal. All papers submitted to Health Informatics Journal are subject to peer review by members of a carefully appointed editorial board. The journal operates a conventional double-blind reviewing policy. 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-MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United States 20, India 15, United Kingdom 10, Italy 7, Greece 7 (116 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Electronic Health Records SystemsHealth Professions15.7%
- Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsHealth Professions12.6%
- Health Literacy and Information AccessibilityHealth Professions7.7%
- Healthcare Systems and TechnologyBusiness, Management and Accounting5.5%
- Digital Mental Health InterventionsPsychology5.2%
- Telemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationMedicine4.6%
- Biomedical Text Mining and OntologiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.8%
- Technology Use by Older AdultsSocial Sciences3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medical Informatics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medical Informatics | 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 | Medical Informatics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 2.04LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.79LetPub ·
- h-index
- 33LetPub ·
- h-index
- 80OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 778OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.17OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 91LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,751 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 78 | 78 | 31 |
| 2025 | 92 | 92 | 237 |
| 2024 | 114 | 114 | 632 |
| 2023 | 69 | 69 | 645 |
| 2022 | 87 | 87 | 1,140 |
| 2021 | 109 | 109 | 2,365 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 14.6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 29 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 4 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 2,000 | Yes | CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,000 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,400 | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- commentaryView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Representing the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics, Health Informat…Length not stated
- editorialView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Representing the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics, Health Informat…main text ≤ 800 words · references ≤ 5
- original researchView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Representing the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics, Health Informat…Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Representing the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics, Health Informat…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Representing the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics, Health Informat…Length not stated
- review articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Representing the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics, Health Informat…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 Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
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
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
Health Informatics Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by th…
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
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
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.
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 Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1997
- ISSN
- 1460-4582
- Electronic ISSN
- 1741-2811
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Health Informatics Journal
What CAS zone is Health Informatics Journal in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Health Informatics Journal is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services / Medical Informatics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Health Informatics Journal?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.04; CiteScore 3.9, h-index 80.
How long does peer review take at Health Informatics Journal?
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 14.6%. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Health Informatics Journal based?
Of the 116 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (20), India (15) and United Kingdom (10). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Health Informatics Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Health Informatics Journal is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Health Informatics Journal open access, and what is the APC?
Health Informatics Journal is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,000.
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: .