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title: "SSM - Population Health: impact and top papers"
description: "SSM - Population Health has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.09 and an h-index of 88 in OpenAlex, #8 of 28 tracked health economics and policy journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 152 papers, and its papers received 9,011 citations."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health
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share_text: "SSM - Population Health has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.09 and an h-index of 88 in OpenAlex, #8 of 28 tracked health economics and policy journals by citedness. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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# SSM - Population Health

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- category: Health Economics and Policy
- publisher: Elsevier BV
- ISSN 2352-8273
- Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ssm-population-health
- ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2352-8273
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S2764672113

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md

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## Key findings

- SSM - Population Health has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.09 and an h-index of 88 in OpenAlex, #8 of 28 tracked health economics and policy journals by citedness.
- In 2025 it published 152 papers, and its papers received 9,011 citations.
- SSM - Population Health published 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #120 of 480 journals.
- Leading institutions: Johns Hopkins University (2), University of Michigan (2) and Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (1).
- Countries: United States (4), United Kingdom (3) and Germany (1).
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, SSM - Population Health published 9 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
- Its most frequent keywords over that period were “older adults” (2), “COVID-19 policy” (1) and “China” (1).

## Citation metrics

*Citation metrics (OpenAlex)*

| Metric | Value |
|---|---:|
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.09 |
| h-index | 88 |
| i10-index | 1,150 |
| Papers in OpenAlex | 1,967 |
| Citations in OpenAlex | 47,765 |
| Rank among tracked health economics and policy journals | [#8 of 28](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) | 89 | 6,582 |
| 2025 | 152 | 9,011 |
| 2024 | 149 | 8,770 |
| 2023 | 255 | 7,472 |
| 2022 | 312 | 6,274 |
| 2021 | 293 | 4,525 |
| 2020 | 189 | 2,655 |
| 2019 | 183 | 1,418 |
| 2018 | 117 | 680 |
| 2017 | 95 | 286 |
| 2016 | 126 | 41 |

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://www.journals.elsevier.com/ssm-population-health

## The last 36 months

*Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |

*Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [older adults](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/older-adults.md) | 2 |
| 2 | COVID-19 policy | 1 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [India](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/india.md) | 1 |
| 5 | adult child caregivers | 1 |
| 6 | benefit take-up | 1 |
| 7 | birth cohort studies | 1 |
| 8 | cancer | 1 |
| 9 | caregiver burden | 1 |
| 10 | causes of death | 1 |

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [The social roots of student mental health: Organizational opportunity structures, social capital, and loneliness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101992) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Gunnar Voß, Philipp Pohlenz | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg |
| 2026-10-24 | [Longitudinal change in occupational engagement configurations in later life: evidence from SHARE France](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101990) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Muriel Sahraoui, Emmanuelle Cambois, Florence Canouï‐Poitrine et al. | Inserm; Université Paris-Est Créteil; Institut national d'études démographiques; … |
| 2026-10-19 | [Data approaches for lifecourse research on early-life determinants of late-life health outcomes: opportunities, limitations, and tradeoffs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101985) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Eleanor Hayes‐Larson, Suhani Amin, Emma L. Nichols et al. | University of Southern California; University of Michigan; University of Minnesota; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Incomplete assessments: Including harms and trade-offs in assessing policy approaches to Covid-19](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101983) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Itai Bavli, Brent A. Sutton, Kevin Bardosh et al. | University of British Columbia; University of Oxford; University of Washington |
| 2026-10-15 | [Benefit take-up in the last year of life: a population-based study using linked data for England and Wales](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101986) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Joanna M. Davies, Amie Fairs, Daniel Ayoubkhani et al. | King's College London; Office for National Statistics; Loughborough University; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [Caregiver childhood abuse and neglect and children's cognitive and social-emotional development: The role of parenting practices](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101988) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Qiannan Song, Hao Gong, Mingchuan Liu et al. | Shaanxi Normal University; Xi’an University |
| 2026-10-08 | [Cognitively healthy life expectancy of older women and men in India](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101981) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Sneha Sarah Mani, Yuan S Zhang, Lindsay C. Kobayashi et al. | Johns Hopkins University; Columbia University; University of Michigan; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Exploring links between health and the genetic risk for smoking](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101982) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Yeongmi Jeong, Meghan M. Skira, Robbee Wedow | Purdue University West Lafayette; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Georgia; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Who benefits from long-term care insurance? Heterogeneous effects among spousal and adult-child caregivers in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101976) | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | Yichen Qiu, Asako Ohinata | University of Leicester |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). SSM - Population Health. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health

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@misc{scholar4ai-journals-ssm-population-health,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {SSM - Population Health},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).