Journal profile · HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Operations Research for Health Care
ISSN 2211-6923 · Elsevier
Operations Research for Health Care: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,080; 0 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Operations Research for Health Care is published by Elsevier 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 Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization, Facility Location and Emergency Management and Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions, together about 49.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
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From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Healthcare Operations and Scheduling OptimizationHealth Professions28.7%
- Facility Location and Emergency ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting10.8%
- Scheduling and Timetabling SolutionsDecision Sciences10%
- Emergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicine8.2%
- Scheduling and Optimization AlgorithmsEngineering5.6%
- Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.2%
- Healthcare Quality and ManagementHealth Professions3.4%
- Simulation Techniques and ApplicationsDecision Sciences3.2%
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 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Health Professions | Q1 | 6/23 | 76th |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | Q2 | 121/466 | 74th |
| Management Science and Operations Research | Q2 | 87/225 | 61st |
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
- 4.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.41LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- h-index
- 46OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 168OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.46OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 31.82%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 337 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 439 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 693 |
| 2024 | 13 | 4 | 776 |
| 2023 | 16 | 9 | 835 |
| 2022 | 13 | 4 | 937 |
| 2021 | 23 | 9 | 908 |
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 3,080 / EUR 2,810 / GBP 2,470 / JPY 363,380 | — | — | |
| 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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- ISSN
- 2211-6923
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Operations Research for Health Care
What CAS zone is Operations Research for Health Care in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Operations Research for Health Care is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services. 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.
Which databases index Operations Research for Health Care?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Operations Research for Health Care is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Operations Research for Health Care open access, and what is the APC?
Operations Research for Health Care is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,080.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .