Informatics for Health and Social Care promotes evidence-based informatics as applied to the domain of health and social care. It showcases informatics research and practice within the many and diverse contexts of care and digital health; it takes personal information, both its direct and indirect use, as its central focus.
The scope of the Journal is broad, encompassing both the properties of care information and the life-cycle of associated information systems.
Consideration of the properties of care information will necessarily include the data itself, its representation, structure, and associated processes, as well as the context of its use, highlighting the related communication, computational, cognitive, social, cultural and ethical aspects.
Consideration of the life-cycle of care information systems includes full range from requirements, specifications, theoretical models and conceptual design through to sustainable implementations, and the valuation of impacts. Empirical evidence experiences related to implementation of systems targeting individuals, families and communities are particularly welcome.
The journal aims to highlight both successes and failures of health information technology and discuss aspects of social justice and health equity and how these may inform the design of person-centered systems for health and social care.
Informatics for Health and Social Care seeks to consolidate and add to the core knowledge within the disciplines of Biomedical, Health and Social Care Informatics. The Journal therefore welcomes scientific papers, case studies and literature reviews. Examples of novel approaches are particularly welcome. Articles might, for example, show how care data are collected and transformed into useful and usable information, how informatics research is translated into practice, how specific results can be generalized, or perhaps provide case studies that facilitate learning from experience.
The overriding goal of the Journal is to show how informatics contributes to the better delivery of care through the presentation of high-quality material, irrespective of whether it is oriented towards research or practice.
Journal metrics
Usage
63K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.5 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.9 (2023) 5 year IF
6.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.934 (2023) SNIP
0.820 (2023) SJR
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Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF George Demiris, PhD FACMI Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD Ruth Ngozi Agbakoba – New York University, Langone Health, USA Kalyani Ankem – Northern Kentucky University, USA Wisdom K. Atiwoto – Ghana Health Service, Ghana Daniel Capurro – University of Melbourne , Australia Jane Chung – Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing, USA Walter Curioso – Universidad Continental, Peru Isabel de la Torre Diez – University of Valladolid, Spain Shefali Haldar – Merck & Co, USA Hannah R. Marston – The Open University, UK Maurice D. Mulvenna – Ulster University, UK Bo Xie – The University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Informatics for Health and Social Care
(2008 - current)
Formerly known as
Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine
(1999 - 2007)
Medical Informatics
(1976 - 1998)
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