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Table 2 Top 10 productive journals in health economics research

From: Global trends in the scientific research of the health economics: a bibliometric analysis from 1975 to 2022

Rank

Journals

Pubs

%

Category (Quartile)

JIF

1

Value Health

160

9.87

Economics – SSCI (Q1)

Health policy & services – SSCI (Q1)

Health care science & service – SCIE (Q1)

5.156

2

Health Economics

50

3.08

Economics – SSCI (Q2)

Health policy & services – SSCI (Q3)

Health care sciences & services – SCIE (Q3)

2.395

3

British Medical Journal

39

2.40

Medicine, general & internal – SCIE (Q1)

17.215

4

Pharmacoeconomics

29

1.79

Economics – SSCI (Q1)

Health policy & services – SSCI (Q1)

Health care sciences & services – SCIE (Q2)

Pharmacology & pharmacy – SCIE (Q2)

4.579

5

Health Policy

17

1.04

Health policy & services – SSCI (Q2)

Health care sciences & services – SCIE (Q2)

3.255

6

Social Science Medicine

17

1.04

Public, environmental & occupational health – SCIE (Q2)

Public, environmental & occupational health – SSCI (Q1)

Social sciences, biomedical – SSCI (Q1)

5.379

7

Lancet

14

0.86

Medicine, general & internal – SCIE (Q1)

202.731

8

New England Journal of Medicine

14

0.86

Medicine, general & internal – SCIE (Q1)

176.082

9

European Journal of Public Health

12

0.74

Public, environmental & occupational health – SCIE (Q2)

Public, environmental & occupational health – SSCI (Q2)

4.424

10

South African Medical Journal

12

0.74

Medicine, general & internal – SCIE (Q3)

0.566

  1. Note: Pubs = publications, % = share in total analysed documents (1620), SSCI = Social Science Citation Index, SCIE = Science Citation Index Expanded, JIF = Journal Impact Factor according to Journal Citation Reports 2021 (calculated from data indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection), Quartile = category ranking by JIF
  2. Source: Authors