--- title: "Health Research Policy and Systems: impact and top papers" description: "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." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "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. (as of 2026-10-31)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-10-31T19:11:11+09:00 window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Health Research Policy and Systems - 3 papers in the last 7 days - category: Health Economics and Policy - publisher: BioMed Central - ISSN 1478-4505 - Journal website: https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/ - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1478-4505 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S201446958 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md ## Key findings - 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 Trinity Western University (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). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 4.86 | | h-index | 106 | | i10-index | 1,205 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 1,930 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 62,738 | | Rank among tracked health economics and policy journals | [#1 of 14](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) | *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. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/ ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026* | Oct 23–Sep 24 | Oct 24–Sep 25 | Oct 25–Sep 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 176 | 161 | 152 | 489 | *Most frequent keywords, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | stakeholder engagement | 68 | | 2 | health policy | 43 | | 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 39 | | 4 | knowledge translation | 37 | | 5 | low- and middle-income countries | 33 | | 6 | community participation | 27 | | 7 | evidence-informed policy | 26 | | 8 | health equity | 24 | | 9 | capacity building | 23 | | 10 | intersectoral collaboration | 23 | ## Open access *Papers per year by open-access status (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Open access | Diamond | Gold | Hybrid | Bronze | Green | Closed | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | 2017 | 111 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2018 | 126 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2019 | 110 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2020 | 136 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2021 | 155 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2022 | 143 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2023 | 138 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2024 | 178 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2025 | 170 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2026 (so far) | 110 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 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. *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-29 | [Collaborative methods to co-produce a social prescribing logic model](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01546-6) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | Elizabeth Taylor Buck, Lindsey Bishop‐Edwards, Jane Stockdale et al. | | | 2026-10-28 | [Measuring what matters: governance challenges in defining follow-up priorities in complex healthcare systems](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01550-w) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | Theresa Larsen, Ewa Wikström, Helle Wijk et al. | University of Gothenburg; Providence Health Care; Sahlgrenska University Hospital; … | | 2026-10-27 | [Responsibility without infrastructure: critical safeguarding gaps in United Kingdom research with children and young people](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01547-5) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | Jenny Gilchrist | Mersey Care NHS Trust | | 2026-10-21 | [Protocol for a scoping review of empirical applications of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model in health promotion and public health since 2000](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01545-7) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | Mohtasham Ghaffari, Sakineh Rakhshanderou, Elaheh Lael–Monfared | Shahid Beheshti University; Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences; Mashhad University of Medical Sciences | | 2026-10-06 | [Conducting cross-sectoral collaborative research for food system transformation: learnings from a qualitative evaluation study](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01540-y) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | Sarah Shaw, Oliver Huse, Bea Savory et al. | University of Cambridge; MRC Epidemiology Unit; University of Southampton; … | | 2026-10-06 | [Challenges of parliamentary engagement in health policymaking in Iran: a qualitative study using Gaventa’s power cube framework](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01542-w) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | Meysam Behzadifar, Banafshe Darvishi Teli, Ahad Bakhtiari et al. | Lorestan University of Medical Sciences; Health Equity Research Center; Tehran University of Medical Sciences; … | | 2026-10-05 | [Storytelling for fostering a culture of safety in healthcare: a quasi-experimental study](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01508-y) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | Merzieh Adel Mehraban, Merzieh Gharehbaghi-NoveinFar, Tahmine Salehi et al. | Iran University of Medical Sciences; Firoozgar General Hospital | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. 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