Journal profile · Multiple
Health Risk & Society
ISSN 1369-8575 · eISSN 1469-8331 · Taylor & Francis
Health Risk & Society: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.86; hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 278 days to acceptance (42 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 11% (journal website); 21 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Health Risk & Society is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Risk Perception and Management, Homelessness and Social Issues and Climate Change Communication and Perception, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Health, Risk & Society is a subscription-based, peer reviewed journal that demonstrates how social processes influence the ways in which risks and uncertainties in healthcare are identified, communicated, assessed, and/or managed. This international journal aims to stimulate debate around the role of risk and uncertainty in society through editorials, reviews, and original articles. Health, Risk & Society is an interdisciplinary, intersectoral journal encouraging submissions from researchers and practitioners within various social sciences fields. Manuscripts must critically evaluate evidence, show awareness of contemporary risk theory, and contribute to further understanding of the relationship between health, risk, and society. The journal also encourages articles exploring the ways in which risk and uncertainty are handled at a various levels of society, e.g. by individuals, through groups, within various organizations, and at national and supranational levels. Where appropriate, authors should reflect on how the impact of their findings supports the development of healthcare policy and/or practice. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor. If found suitable for further consideration, the manuscript will undergo peer review by independent, double-anonymous expert reviewers. Before submitting articles, please consult the Instructions for Authors page. The journal welcomes for consideration the following article types, and all articles received by the journal will be subject to double-anonymous peer review. Research Article Methods Health, Risk & Society aims to be accessible to social and health scientists from a variety of disciplines, practitioners and policy makers who have an interest in risk issues relating to health. Accordingly those considering submitting material for publication in the journal need to ensure that it is accessible to these various audiences and avoid technical jargon that is only understood within their discipline. Disclaimer
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Patrick BrownPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 2, Australia 2 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Risk Perception and ManagementSocial Sciences24.4%
- Homelessness and Social IssuesHealth Professions7.7%
- Climate Change Communication and PerceptionSocial Sciences7.1%
- Global Public Health Policies and EpidemiologyBusiness, Management and Accounting5.4%
- Disaster Management and ResilienceSocial Sciences5.1%
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4%
- Sex work and related issuesSocial Sciences4%
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual RiskMedicine3.3%
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 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EmbasePsycINFOCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, Combined Health Information Database, CommunityWISE, Community Care, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), Family Studies Database (NISC), Health Economic Evaluations Database (OHE-HEED), Health and Safety Science, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, ISI Alerting Services, Occupational Safety and Health database (OSH-DB), PASCAL, Psychological Abstracts, Risk Abstracts, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
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
- 1.86LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.53LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.53Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.73LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.73Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 71OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 559OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.92OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 26.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 30.36%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 89,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 896 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19 | 11 | 7 |
| 2025 | 21 | 15 | 22 |
| 2024 | 20 | 11 | 86 |
| 2023 | 17 | 10 | 68 |
| 2022 | 27 | 15 | 184 |
| 2021 | 23 | 9 | 289 |
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
278 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 227 days – 346 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 9 days (42 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 289 days
- Sample
- 42 articles with submission and acceptance dates (45 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 11%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 121 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 121 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
Article types accepted2
- methodsMethodsLength not stated
- research articleResearch ArticleLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Health, Risk & Society is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor. If found suitable for further consideration, the manuscript will undergo peer review by independent, double-anonymous expert reviewers. Model summary
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor. If found suitable for further consideration, the manuscript will undergo peer review by independent, double-anonymous expert reviewers.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1369-8575
- Electronic ISSN
- 1469-8331
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 28, Issue 5-6 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Health Risk & Society
What CAS zone is Health Risk & Society in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Health Risk & Society is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health / Social Sciences, Biomedical. 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 Health Risk & Society?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.86; CiteScore 2.6, h-index 71.
How long does peer review take at Health Risk & Society?
Based on the dates recorded on 42 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 278 days (interquartile range 227–346 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 11%. 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 Risk & Society based?
Of the 4 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (2) and Australia (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Health Risk & Society?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Health Risk & Society is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Health Risk & Society open access, and what is the APC?
Health Risk & Society is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .