Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Aims & Scope

This Journal publishes articles on all aspects of health economics: theoretical contributions, empirical studies and analyses of health policy from the economic perspective.

Its scope includes the determinants of health and its definition and valuation, as well as the demand for and supply of health care; planning and market mechanisms; micro-economic evaluation of individual procedures and treatments; and evaluation of the performance of health care systems.

Contributions should typically be original and innovative.

As a rule, the Journal does not include routine applications of cost-effectiveness analysis, discrete choice experiments and costing analyses.

Editorials are regular features, these should be concise and topical.

Occasionally commissioned reviews are published and special issues bring together contributions on a single topic.

Health Economics Letters facilitate rapid exchange of views on topical issues.

Contributions related to problems in both developed and developing countries are welcome.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.4
2024	2.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.351

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	133

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2884

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1352

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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• Web of Science
• Medline
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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The rand 36‐item health survey 1.0

  Citation: 2199

  Authors: Ron D., Cathy Donald, Rebecca M.

• Discrete choice experiments in health economics: a review of the literature

  Citation: 1005

  Authors: Esther W., Mandy, Karen

• Valuing health-related quality of life: An EQ-5D-5L value set for England

  Citation: 978

  Authors: Nancy J., Koonal K., Yan, Brendan, Ben

• Representing uncertainty: the role of cost‐effectiveness acceptability curves

  Citation: 838

  Authors: Elisabeth, Karl, Mark

• Estimating mean QALYs in trial‐based cost‐effectiveness analysis: the importance of controlling for baseline utility

  Citation: 819

  Authors: Andrea, Neil, Mark J.

• Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993–1998

  Citation: 777

  Authors: Adam, Eddy van

• Cost‐effectiveness acceptability curves – facts, fallacies and frequently asked questions

  Citation: 713

  Authors: Elisabeth, Bernie J., Andrew

• Costs, effects and C/E‐ratios alongside a clinical trial

  Citation: 696

  Authors: Ben A., Maiwenn J., Gilad S., Frans F. H.

• Pulling cost-effectiveness analysis up by its bootstraps: A non-parametric approach to confidence interval estimation

  Citation: 643

  Authors: Andrew H., David E., Christopher Z.

• A comparison of the EQ‐5D and SF‐6D across seven patient groups

  Citation: 640

  Authors: John, Jennifer, Aki, Jan

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