Journal profile · HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Quality Management in Health Care
ISSN 1063-8628 · eISSN 1550-5154 · Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · UNITED STATES
Quality Management in Health Care: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.36; JCR Q4 (journal website); hybrid open access; 46 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Quality Management in Health Care is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. 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 Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Healthcare Quality and Management and Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, together about 32.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (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
Editor-in-chief Jill MarstellerPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions12%
- Healthcare Quality and ManagementHealth Professions12%
- Patient Satisfaction in HealthcareHealth Professions8.9%
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.7%
- Patient Safety and Medication ErrorsHealth Professions7.3%
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.1%
- Clinical practice guidelines implementationMedicine5.1%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions4.9%
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)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
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q4 · HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES · rank 153/194
- JCR Q4 · HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES · rank 108/125
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
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 1.36LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.84LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31LetPub ·
- h-index
- 53OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 477OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.87OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 14.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 7.76%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 41LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,132 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 46 | 6 | 23 |
| 2024 | 63 | 5 | 96 |
| 2023 | 46 | 9 | 147 |
| 2022 | 73 | 20 | 293 |
| 2021 | 60 | 12 | 254 |
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
Too few articlesOnly 9 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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".
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1063-8628
- Electronic ISSN
- 1550-5154
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 35, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Quality Management in Health Care
What CAS zone is Quality Management in Health Care in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Quality Management in Health Care 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.
What is the impact factor of Quality Management in Health Care?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.36; CiteScore 2.2, h-index 53.
What JCR quartile is Quality Management in Health Care in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q4; by category, HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES Q4 (153/194), HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES Q4 (108/125). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Medicine.
Which databases index Quality Management in Health Care?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Quality Management in Health Care is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Is Quality Management in Health Care open access, and what is the APC?
Quality Management in Health Care is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
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: .