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Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management
ISSN 2516-0435 · eISSN 2516-0443 · SAGE
Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,900; 47 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management is published by SAGE 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 Patient Safety and Medication Errors, Healthcare Quality and Management and Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues, together about 56.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management is a peer-reviewed journal which considers patient safety and risk at all levels of the health care s...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Patient Safety and Medication ErrorsHealth Professions33.2%
- Healthcare Quality and ManagementHealth Professions14%
- Medical Malpractice and Liability IssuesHealth Professions9.4%
- Hospital Admissions and OutcomesMedicine6%
- Occupational Health and Safety ResearchHealth Professions5.2%
- Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug ReactionsPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3.4%
- Medical and Health Sciences ResearchMedicine3%
- Infection Control in HealthcareMedicine2.9%
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 | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | Q3 | 233/387 | 39th |
| Leadership and Management | Q3 | 27/41 | 35th |
| Health Policy | Q3 | 218/330 | 34th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- h-index
- 22OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 57OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.34OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 15.31%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 385 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 7 | 278 |
| 2025 | 47 | 8 | 290 |
| 2024 | 42 | 10 | 263 |
| 2023 | 39 | 14 | 302 |
| 2022 | 42 | 13 | 225 |
| 2021 | 46 | 16 | 222 |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,900 / GBP 2,859 | — | — |
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 2516-0435
- Electronic ISSN
- 2516-0443
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management
What CAS zone is Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services / Health Policy & Services. 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.
Which databases index Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,900.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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: .