Journal profile · MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Healthcare Informatics Research
ISSN 2093-3681 · eISSN 2093-369X · Korean Society of Medical Informatics · Korea, Republic of
Healthcare Informatics Research: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 300; median 157 days to acceptance (73 articles, last 24 months); 44 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Healthcare Informatics Research is published by Korean Society of Medical Informatics 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 Electronic Health Records Systems, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications and Machine Learning in Healthcare, together about 36.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health Information Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Healthcare Informatics Research (Healthc Inform Res; HIR) is the official journal of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) founded in 1987, and replaced its predecessor, the Journal of KOSMI (JKOSMI; ISSN: 1225- 8903), in 2010. The journal publishes quarterly peer-reviewed original research articles in English in order to expand its readership globally and reinforce its commitment to the development of healthcare informatics. The journal aims to promote the fundamental understanding of healthcare informatics and advance knowledge and application systems in healthcare fields. It covers high-quality original research articles, reviews, case reports, and communications in the area of design, development, implementation, and evaluation of information systems in healthcare fields. It also includes health policy, education, managerial and behavioral aspects of healthcare informatics as well as health information infrastructure such as standardization, security, biomedical engineering, and bioinformatics.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named South Korea 19, United States 6, Taiwan, China 2, Mainland China 1, Hong Kong, China 1 (41 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Electronic Health Records SystemsHealth Professions18.3%
- Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsHealth Professions11.4%
- Machine Learning in HealthcareComputer Science6.7%
- Artificial Intelligence in HealthcareHealth Professions6%
- Innovation in Digital Healthcare SystemsHealth Professions5.4%
- Biomedical Text Mining and OntologiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.2%
- Nursing Diagnosis and DocumentationNursing5.2%
- Telemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationMedicine4.8%
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 | 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 | Medical Informatics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, Crossref, Korea Citation Index (KCI), KoreaMed, Synapse, KoMCI Web, Similarity Check
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 (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.96LetPub ·
- h-index
- 65OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 358OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.87OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.28%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 40LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 840 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 33 | 33 | 5 |
| 2025 | 44 | 44 | 210 |
| 2024 | 45 | 45 | 257 |
| 2023 | 44 | 44 | 523 |
| 2022 | 44 | 44 | 563 |
| 2021 | 44 | 44 | 1,081 |
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 PubMed · to
157 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 94 days – 229 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 47 days (74 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 219 days
- Sample
- 73 articles with submission and acceptance dates (77 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)
- about 28 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 28 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 300 | Yes | CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 300 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 200 / USD 300 / USD 100 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- USD 50
- Page charges
- USD 300
- Submission fee
- USD 200
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 prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 200–250 words
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- case reportCase reports deal with short application cases of healthcare informatics interest or innovation such as application of information technology followed by evalua…Length not stated
- communicationCommunications include short critical or explanatory notes of perspectives of opinion leaders on important topics or readers’ comments on articles published in …Length not stated
- editorialEditorials provide a statement of the opinions, beliefs, and policy of the editors or experts in the healthcare informatics field, usually on current matters of…Length not stated
- original articleructure and volume by publication types Original article: An original article should not exceed the following maximums: word count of main text, 3,000 words; nu…main text ≤ 3,000 words
- review articleReview articles provide reviews of subjects of importance to researchers written by experts in healthcare informatics, dealing with very active fields of resear…Length not stated
- tutorialTutorials consist of a type of reviews that gives an instructional and reasonably thorough coverage of a specific subject or field for researchers to update the…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access
Open access under CC BY-NC 4.0 Model summary
HIR is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review: double-anonymized, 3 reviewers Model summary
All manuscripts are treated as confidential and peer-reviewed by 3 anonymous reviewers selected by the Editor.
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
- Korean Society of Medical Informatics
- Country or region
- Korea, Republic of
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2093-3681
- Electronic ISSN
- 2093-369X
- Society / sponsor
- Korean Society of Medical Informatics
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 32 (July 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- 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 Healthcare Informatics Research
What CAS zone is Healthcare Informatics Research in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Healthcare Informatics Research is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category 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 Healthcare Informatics Research?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 5.2, h-index 65.
How long does peer review take at Healthcare Informatics Research?
Based on the dates recorded on 73 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 157 days (interquartile range 94–229 days); authors report an average review time of about 28 weeks. 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 Healthcare Informatics Research?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 200–250 words; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Cover letter: Required. 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 Healthcare Informatics Research based?
Of the 41 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are South Korea (19), United States (6) and Taiwan, China (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Healthcare Informatics Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Healthcare Informatics Research is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists PMC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Healthcare Informatics Research open access, and what is the APC?
Healthcare Informatics Research is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 300.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .