Healthcare

Aims & Scope

HealthCare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation is a quarterly journal.

The journal promotes cutting edge research on innovation in healthcare delivery, including improvements in systems, processes, management, and applied information technology.

The journal welcomes submissions of original research articles, case studies capturing "policy to practice" or "implementation of best practices", commentaries, and critical reviews of relevant novel programs and products.

The scope of the journal includes topics directly related to delivering healthcare, such as: -Care redesign- Applied health IT- Payment innovation- Managerial innovation- Quality improvement (QI) research- New training and education models- Comparative delivery innovation

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.1
2024	2.00

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6436

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	271

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.830

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	33

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline
• Embase

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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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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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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.

• A design thinking framework for healthcare management and innovation

  Citation: 396

  Authors: Jess P., Thomas R., Matthew J., Christine

• Patient portals and health apps: Pitfalls, promises, and what one might learn from the other

  Citation: 154

  Authors: Jessica L., Hardeep, Dean F., Traber Davis

• S2HS- A blockchain based approach for smart healthcare system

  Citation: 144

  Authors: Gautami, Mohd Abdul, Sara

• Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems – A vision for better care of older adults

  Citation: 140

  Authors: Kedar S., Amy, Mara, Andrea, Terry

• Segmenting high-cost Medicare patients into potentially actionable cohorts

  Citation: 138

  Authors: Karen E., Jose F., Nancy, Robert C., E. John, Ashish K.

• Using social media to engage adolescents and young adults with their health

  Citation: 109

  Authors: Charlene A., Raina M., Megan A.

• Digital triage: Novel strategies for population health management in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Lucinda, Kelley A., Farah Z., Rintaro, Adam B., Lee H., Shuhan, Rajesh, Nancy, Gianna, Inga T., Danika, Thomas D., Garrett, Yonatan G., Haipeng (Mark)

• Healthy Days at home: A novel population-based outcome measure

  Citation: 77

  Authors: Laura G., E. John, Jie, Ashish K.

• Association of race, ethnicity, and community-level factors with COVID-19 cases and deaths across U.S. counties

  Citation: 72

  Authors: Jose F., Rishi K., Winta T., Kristen, Jessica, Ashish K.

• Improving the safety of health information technology requires shared responsibility: It is time we all step up

  Citation: 68

  Authors: Dean F., Elisabeth, Hardeep

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