Informatics for Health & Social Care

Informatics for Health & Social Care is published by Informa Healthcare 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 Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, Electronic Health Records Systems and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility, together about 40% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Informatics for Health and Social Care promotes evidence-based informatics as applied to the domain of health and social care. It showcases informatics research and practice within the many and diverse contexts of care and digital health; it takes personal information, both its direct and indirect use, as its central focus. The scope of the Journal is broad, encompassing both the properties of care information and the life-cycle of associated information systems. Consideration of the properties of care information will necessarily include the data itself, its representation, structure, and associated processes, as well as the context of its use, highlighting the related communication, computational, cognitive, social, cultural and ethical aspects. Consideration of the life-cycle of care information systems includes full range from requirements, specifications, theoretical models and conceptual design through to sustainable implementations, and the valuation of impacts. Empirical evidence experiences related to implementation of systems targeting individuals, families and communities are particularly welcome. The journal aims to highlight both successes and failures of health information technology and discuss aspects of social justice and health equity and how these may inform the design of person-centered systems for health and social care. Informatics for Health and Social Care seeks to consolidate and add to the core knowledge within the disciplines of Biomedical, Health and Social Care Informatics. The Journal therefore welcomes scientific papers, case studies and literature reviews. Examples of novel approaches are particularly welcome. Articles might, for example, show how care data are collected and transformed into useful and usable information, how informatics research is translated into practice, how specific results can be generalized, or perhaps provide case studies that facilitate learning from experience. The overriding goal of the Journal is to show how informatics contributes to the better delivery of care through the presentation of high-quality material, irrespective of whether it is oriented towards research or practice.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services

Editor-in-chief Gabriela Mustata WilsonPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

1.82LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.71LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.71Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

1.06LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.06Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

31LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

52OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

254OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.42OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

4.55%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

17LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

65,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Downloads per year (publisher) 2024

65,000Publisher website · 2026-09-14

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.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision 2024

62 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-14

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Informa Healthcare

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1753-8157

Electronic ISSN

1753-8165

Latest issue on the website

Volume 51, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website