Journal profile · Health Care Sciences & Services
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
ISSN 0281-3432 · eISSN 1502-7724 · Informa Healthcare · NORWAY · Quarterly · Founded 1983
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.85; JCR Q2 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 144 days to acceptance (101 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 104 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is published by Informa Healthcare 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 Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare and Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention, together about 26% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is an international online open access journal publishing articles with relevance to general practice and primary health care. Focusing on the continuous professional development in family medicine the journal addresses clinical, epidemiological and humanistic topics in relation to the daily clinical practice. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is owned by the members of the National Colleges of General Practice in the five Nordic countries through the Nordic Federation of General Practice (NFGP). The journal includes original research on topics related to general practice and family medicine, and publishes both quantitative and qualitative original research, editorials, discussion and analysis papers and reviews to facilitate continuing professional development in family medicine. The journal's topics range broadly and include: Clinical family medicine Epidemiological research Qualitative research Health services research. All research articles published in the journal have undergone a thorough peer-review, involving initial editor screening and review by at least two anonymous referees. As this is an Open Access (OA) journal, you can publish your research so it is free to access online as soon as it is published, meaning anyone can read (and cite) your work. Please see our guide to Open Access for more information. Many funders mandate publishing your research open access; you can check open access funder policies and mandates here.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services
Editor-in-chief Anna NagerPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions13.2%
- Patient-Provider Communication in HealthcareHealth Professions7%
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular PreventionMedicine5.9%
- Chronic Disease Management StrategiesMedicine5.3%
- Healthcare Systems and TechnologyBusiness, Management and Accounting5.3%
- Antibiotic Use and ResistanceImmunology and Microbiology5.1%
- Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology3.8%
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and LipoproteinsMedicine3.8%
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 | Primary Health Care | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
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 | Primary Health Care | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Primary Health Care | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & 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
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPMCPubMedPsycINFOCAB AbstractsCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Index Medicus, AgBiotechNet (CABI), Applied Social Science Index Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, Emcare (Elsevier), Environmental Science Database (CABI), Grasslands and Forage Abstracts (CABI), Global Health (CABI), Index Medicus (NLM), Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature (IMFL), Nutrition Research Newsletter, Ornamental Horticulture (CABI), PEDro, Plant Growth Regulator Abstracts (CABI), Psychological Abstracts, Research Alert and SciSearch
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 1.85LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.83LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.83Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 48LetPub ·
- h-index
- 84OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,255OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.03OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 15.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 91LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 468,000Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 468,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,583 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 87 | 87 | 27 |
| 2025 | 104 | 104 | 224 |
| 2024 | 101 | 101 | 341 |
| 2023 | 72 | 72 | 503 |
| 2022 | 62 | 62 | 558 |
| 2021 | 67 | 67 | 833 |
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 Crossref · to
144 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 104 days – 219 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (101 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 157 days
- Sample
- 101 articles with submission and acceptance dates (216 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)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 40%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 40%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 70 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review 2025
- 70 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 18 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 18 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 31 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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 | EUR 2,110 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | EUR 1,595 | — | — | |
| LetPub | EUR 2,110 | 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)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and readership of your article Make an impact and reach new rea…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review: initial editor screening and review by at least two anonymous referees. Model summary
All research articles published in the journal have undergone a thorough peer-review, involving initial editor screening and review by at least two anonymous referees.
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
- Informa Healthcare
- Country or region
- NORWAY
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1983
- ISSN
- 0281-3432
- Electronic ISSN
- 1502-7724
- Society / sponsor
- Nordic Federation of General Practice APS
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 44, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- 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 Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
What CAS zone is Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Primary Health Care / Health Care Sciences & Services / Medicine, General & Internal. 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 Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.85; CiteScore 3, h-index 84.
How long does peer review take at Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care?
Based on the dates recorded on 101 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 144 days (interquartile range 104–219 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 40% (2025). 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 Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 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.
Which databases index Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PMC, PubMed, PsycINFO, CAB Abstracts, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care open access, and what is the APC?
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
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: .