Journal of Health Economics

Aims & Scope

This journal seeks articles related to the economics of health and medical care.

Its scope will include the following topics: Production and supply of health services; Demand and utilization of health services; Financing of health services; Determinants of health, including investments in health and risky health behaviors; Economic consequences of ill-health; Behavioral models of demanders, suppliers and other health care agencies; Evaluation of policy interventions that yield economic insights; Efficiency and distributional aspects of health policy; and such other topics as the Editors may deem appropriate.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.6
2024	3.40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1003

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1145

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.430

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	153

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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
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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 price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs

  Citation: 2958

  Authors: Joseph A, Ronald W, Henry G

• Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: New estimates of R&D costs

  Citation: 2611

  Authors: Joseph A., Henry G., Ronald W.

• The estimation of a preference-based measure of health from the SF-36

  Citation: 2420

  Authors: John, Jennifer, Mark

• Estimating log models: to transform or not to transform?

  Citation: 1654

  Authors: Willard G, John

• Measurement of health state utilities for economic appraisal

  Citation: 1629

  Authors: George W.

• Understanding differences in health behaviors by education

  Citation: 1299

  Authors: David M., Adriana

• Two-stage residual inclusion estimation: Addressing endogeneity in health econometric modeling

  Citation: 1280

  Authors: Joseph V., Anirban, Paul J.

• The lasting impact of childhood health and circumstance

  Citation: 1085

  Authors: Anne, Angela, Christina

• The medical care costs of obesity: An instrumental variables approach

  Citation: 1067

  Authors: John, Chad

• The friction cost method for measuring indirect costs of disease

  Citation: 822

  Authors: Marc A., Frans F.H., B.Martin, Leona

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