Journal profile · Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
ISSN 1179-1594 · Dove Medical Press · United Kingdom
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.58; JCR Q2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 3,940; median 86 days to acceptance (111 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 7% (journal website); 310 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is published by Dove Medical Press and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are COVID-19 and Mental Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms and Global Maternal and Child Health, together about 26.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Editor-in-Chief: Dr Gulsum Kubra Kaya and Dr Mecit Can Emre Simsekler Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on the management, governance, and policy dimensions of healthcare systems. The journal emphasizes evidence-based strategies to identify, assess, and mitigate risks that affect patient safety, healthcare quality, and population health outcomes. The journal prioritizes research that informs decision-making, regulation, and strategic planning in healthcare organizations and public health systems. It does not consider manuscripts that are primarily clinical, biomedical, or focused on individual lifestyle or dietary interventions. Meta-analyses are no longer considered for publication and animal-based or cell line-based studies are not in scope. Specific topics covered in the journal include: Health system governance, regulation, and compliance Risk assessment, mitigation, and resilience in healthcare delivery Patient safety, quality improvement, and adverse event management Health policy design, evaluation, and implementation Public health risk management (e.g., pandemic preparedness, biosecurity, and emergency response) Legal, ethical, and economic aspects of healthcare risk and policy Emerging technologies in health policy and risk management (e.g., artificial intelligence, digital health tools, predictive analytics, and automation) Health technology assessment and innovation policy Data governance, privacy, and cybersecurity in health systems Occupational and organizational health risk management Health workforce planning and system resilience Resource allocation, cost–risk trade-offs, and financial risk management in healthcare Communication, trust, and risk perception in public health Risk Management and Healthcare Policy welcomes studies evaluating policy or system-level interventions, observational analyses of healthcare risks and outcomes, and implementation research addressing safety, quality, and governance. The journal publishes original research, reviews, evaluations, guidelines, expert commentary, and extended reports. Case reports will be considered only if they make a valuable and original contribution to healthcare policy or system-level risk management. Studies based solely on publicly available datasets must make a substantive and novel contribution to the field and demonstrate validation through replication or complementary analysis. Author guidance: To ensure relevance
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Editor-in-chief Kaya SafetyPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 9%); most named United States 9, Italy 3, United Arab Emirates 3, Mainland China 2, United Kingdom 2 (23 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology10.5%
- Healthcare Systems and ReformsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine5.3%
- Vaccine Coverage and HesitancySocial Sciences5.3%
- Patient Safety and Medication ErrorsHealth Professions5.2%
- COVID-19 epidemiological studiesMathematics5.2%
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.2%
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutHealth Professions4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| 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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 3 |
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 Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 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
SCIESSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 2.58LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.68LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- h-index
- 71OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 888OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.38OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.5%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 303LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 373,556Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,213 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 156 | 156 | 33 |
| 2025 | 310 | 310 | 821 |
| 2024 | 285 | 285 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 240 | 240 | 2,031 |
| 2022 | 203 | 203 | 2,417 |
| 2021 | 474 | 474 | 9,992 |
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
86 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 68 days – 110 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 16 days (111 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 104 days
- Sample
- 111 articles with submission and acceptance dates (545 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 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 7%Publisher website ·
- Desk decision
- 48 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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 3,940 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,836 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 3,300 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted2
- case reportAuthors may use these detailed descriptions of different paper types accepted by Dove Medical Press (case reports, reviews, etc) to decide how to label their pa…Length not stated
- reviewAuthors may use these detailed descriptions of different paper types accepted by Dove Medical Press (case reports, reviews, etc) to decide how to label their pa…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics
- Publication ethics
COPE member Model summary
This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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
- Dove Medical Press
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1179-1594
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
What CAS zone is Risk Management and Healthcare Policy in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is in Zone 3 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 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Risk Management and Healthcare Policy?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.58; CiteScore 3.7, h-index 71.
How long does peer review take at Risk Management and Healthcare Policy?
Based on the dates recorded on 111 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 86 days (interquartile range 68–110 days); authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 7%. 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 JCR quartile is Risk Management and Healthcare Policy in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Medicine.
Where are the editorial board members of Risk Management and Healthcare Policy based?
Of the 23 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 9%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (9), Italy (3) and United Arab Emirates (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Risk Management and Healthcare Policy?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is indexed in SCIE, SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Risk Management and Healthcare Policy open access, and what is the APC?
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,940.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .