Journal profile · Health Care Sciences & Services
Health Technology Assessment
ISSN 1366-5278 · eISSN 2046-4924 · National Co-ordinating Centre for HTA · ENGLAND · Irregular · Founded 1997
Health Technology Assessment: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.75; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review over 12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: fairly hard; 187 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: The NIHR Journals Library has been hugely influential in championing open access publication. Having published its final paper in August 2026, the Journals Library is now closed to new submissions. It will remain available online as a valuable archive of high-quality health research. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Health Technology Assessment is published by National Co-ordinating Centre for HTA 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 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Meta-analysis and systematic reviews and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies, together about 26.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) published research information on the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of health technologies for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance15.8%
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsDecision Sciences5.5%
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and TherapiesMedicine4.8%
- Pelvic floor disorders treatmentsMedicine4.3%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions4.2%
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesMedicine4.1%
- Digital Mental Health InterventionsPsychology4.1%
- Delphi Technique in ResearchSocial Sciences4.1%
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 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 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 2 |
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
- 2.75LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.02LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.37LetPub ·
- h-index
- 110LetPub ·
- h-index
- 200OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,471OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.74OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.98%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 83LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,969 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 187 | 187 | 186 |
| 2024 | 98 | 98 | 601 |
| 2023 | 71 | 71 | 563 |
| 2022 | 60 | 60 | 1,097 |
| 2021 | 82 | 82 | 2,200 |
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)
- Fairly hardLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 53 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Publication ethics Publication ethics
We recognise the importance in preventing of plagiarism, falsification of data, fabrication of results and other areas of ethical misconduct. During active publication, the HTA journal held a membership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). This is a UK-based charity, with over 7000 members worldwide from all academic fields. COPE advises editors and publishers on how to handle cases of…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open access Model summary
All manuscripts published in HTA are open access.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
COPE member Model summary
During active publication, the HTA journal held a membership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism detection software used Model summary
Plagiarism detection software was used to check all manuscripts submitted to Health Technology Assessment.
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
- National Co-ordinating Centre for HTA
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Irregular
- Founded
- 1997
- ISSN
- 1366-5278
- Electronic ISSN
- 2046-4924
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Health Technology Assessment
What CAS zone is Health Technology Assessment in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Health Technology Assessment is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category 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 Technology Assessment?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.75; CiteScore 4.6, h-index 200.
How long does peer review take at Health Technology Assessment?
Authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly hard”. 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.
Which databases index Health Technology Assessment?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Health Technology Assessment is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Health Technology Assessment open access, and what is the APC?
Health Technology Assessment is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .