Health Research Policy and Systems has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.86 and an h-index of 106 in OpenAlex, #1 of 14 tracked health economics and policy journals by citedness.
In 2025 it published 170 papers, and its papers received 7,784 citations.
Health Research Policy and Systems published 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31), ranking #122 of 400 journals.
Leading institutions: Iran University of Medical Sciences (2), Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes (1) and Chalmers University of Technology (1).
Countries: Iran (3), United Kingdom (2) and Canada (1).
100% of the papers Health Research Policy and Systems published in 2023–2025 are open access in OpenAlex (gold 100%), #4 of 14 tracked health economics and policy journals by open-access share.
From Oct 2023 to Sep 2026, Health Research Policy and Systems published 489 papers (14 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
Its most frequent keywords over that period were “stakeholder engagement” (68), “health policy” (43) and “COVID-19 pandemic” (39).
Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)
Year
Papers
Citations received
2026 (so far)
110
6,123
2025
170
7,784
2024
179
8,240
2023
138
6,945
2022
143
6,711
2021
155
6,322
2020
136
4,570
2019
110
2,861
2018
126
2,552
2017
111
2,215
2016
87
1,696
2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly.
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Open-access status as OpenAlex reports it for each paper (diamond: published in an open-access journal that charges authors no fee; gold: published in an open-access journal; hybrid: open under a licence in a subscription journal; bronze: free to read on the publisher's site without an open licence; green: only a free copy in a repository; closed: no free copy found). Papers count by publication year; the share is of the papers whose status is known.
Merzieh Adel Mehraban, Merzieh Gharehbaghi-NoveinFar, Tahmine Salehi et al.
Iran University of Medical Sciences; Firoozgar General Hospital
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Health Research Policy and Systems. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems
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