--- title: "Health Economics and Policy journal rankings by citations" description: "Among the 13 tracked health economics and policy journals, Health Policy has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (4.85), followed by PharmacoEconomics (3.86) and Journal of Health Economics (3.40). By h-index, Journal of Health Economics leads with 219." url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Among the 13 tracked health economics and policy journals, Health Policy has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (4.85), followed by PharmacoEconomics (3.86) and Journal of Health Economics (3.40). (as of 2026-10-31)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-10-31T07:48:13+09:00 window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Health Economics and Policy journal rankings by citations The 13 tracked health economics and policy journals ranked by 2-year mean citedness, with their h-index, i10-index and papers and citations in 2025. 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. By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) ## Key findings - Among the 13 tracked health economics and policy journals, Health Policy has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (4.85), followed by PharmacoEconomics (3.86) and Journal of Health Economics (3.40). - By h-index, Journal of Health Economics leads with 219. - Health Policy published the most papers in 2025 (230). *Tracked health economics and policy journals by 2-year mean citedness (OpenAlex)* | # | Journal | 2-year citedness | h-index | i10-index | Papers 2025 | Citations 2025 | Publisher | |---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---| | 1 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 4.85 | 159 | 3,517 | 230 | 11,766 | Elsevier BV | | 2 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 3.86 | 153 | 2,683 | 110 | 9,214 | Adis, Springer Healthcare | | 3 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 3.40 | 219 | 2,205 | 99 | 11,348 | Elsevier BV | | 4 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 3.38 | 71 | 714 | 83 | 3,184 | Adis, Springer Healthcare | | 5 | [Israel Journal of Health Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/israel-journal-of-health-policy-research.md) | 3.37 | 44 | 377 | 81 | 1,460 | BioMed Central | | 6 | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | 3.12 | 58 | 388 | 120 | 2,195 | BioMed Central | | 7 | [PharmacoEconomics - Open](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics-open.md) | 2.99 | 37 | 235 | 77 | 1,377 | Adis, Springer Healthcare | | 8 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2.55 | 96 | 1,382 | 130 | 5,139 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 9 | [Health Policy and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-and-technology.md) | 2.48 | 59 | 379 | 128 | 2,464 | Elsevier BV | | 10 | [Health Policy OPEN](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-open.md) | 2.48 | 25 | 63 | 24 | 473 | Elsevier BV | | 11 | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 2.33 | 61 | 446 | 96 | 1,989 | BioMed Central | | 12 | [Journal of Public Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-health-policy.md) | 2.25 | 108 | 1,082 | 73 | 2,323 | Palgrave Macmillan | | 13 | [Economics & Human Biology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-human-biology.md) | 2.23 | 88 | 856 | 85 | 2,857 | Elsevier BV | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Health Economics and Policy journal rankings by citations. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-rankings-journal-metrics-health-economics-and-policy, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {Health Economics and Policy journal rankings by citations}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy}}, urldate = {2026-10-31}, note = {Journal 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/).