Impact Factor
3.02
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
2.52
150 total citations
h5-index
18
h5 depth signal
Cited share
69.8%
44 of 63
Total citations
150
Citation footprint
Metric signal
2.35
External metric anchor
Self-citation
16.0%
24 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United Kingdom
128
United States
82
Netherlands
56
Canada
30
Australia
26
Citing Fields of Research
Healthcare Policy
296
Medical Ethics
107
Patient Care
107
Political Science & International Relations
65
Economics
50
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
845
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
63
44 cited publications
Last 12 months
48
4.4 publications/month
Open access share
100.0%
48 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United Kingdom
128 citing publications
Leading citing field
Healthcare Policy
296 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
15 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v1n1, Jan. 2006-
v1n1, Jan. 2006-
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Healthcare Policy
Medical Ethics
Patient Care
Economics
Broad Categories
Health Services
Jurisprudence
Public Health
Healthcare Policy
Patient Care
Medical Ethics
MeSH Descriptors
Economics, Medical
Health Policy
Jurisprudence
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1017/s1744133126100760
Open DOI
Multiple paths to privatisation in healthcare? Comparing England and Italy beyond the public–private divide
English and Italian national health systems are predominantly funded by general taxation and treat patients primarily free at the point of delivery. Both healthcare systems are facing increasing financial pressures given population agein...
02
DOI 10.1017/s1744133126100759
Open DOI
Investment or extraction? Reframing private equity in healthcare
Moral hazard is built into the structure of private equity investments, which incentivises debt-based extraction rather than value-adding investment. To craft effective regulation of private equity’s participation in healthcare, and to c...
03
DOI 10.1017/s1744133126100681
Open DOI
Drug shortages in Italy: strategic insights and empirical evidence from the Italian pharmaceutical market
Drug shortages disrupt healthcare delivery and pose a critical challenge to the resilience of pharmaceutical supply chains. This study investigates the drivers of drug shortages in Italy – Europe’s leading pharmaceutical producer – to id...
04
DOI 10.1017/s1744133126100735
Open DOI
Evaluating information security in reimbursement decisions for digital health technologies in Germany and Switzerland – stretching the fourth hurdle too far?
Digital health technologies (DHTs) can improve healthcare delivery but also raise concerns about data protection and cybersecurity. Germany and Switzerland take contrasting approaches to these issues in reimbursement decision-making: in ...
05
DOI 10.1017/s1744133126100723
Open DOI
Litigating the No Surprises Act: how legal challenges undermined cost containment and reshaped provider payments
The No Surprises Act (NSA), signed into law by President Trump over five years ago, marked a significant federal intervention aimed at shielding millions of consumers with private health coverage from unexpected out-of-network medical bi...
06
DOI 10.1017/s174413312610070x
Open DOI
Institutional tensions in HIV treatment: challenges in providing free antiretroviral drugs under China’s ‘Four Frees and One Care’ policy
China’s ‘Four Frees and One Care’ policy provides people living with HIV (PLHIV) with free antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), while the recent inclusion of new ARVs in medical insurance policy has created policy overlap. Guided by the Institut...
07
DOI 10.1017/s1744133126100747
Open DOI
Mapping digital welfare platforms globally: functional typologies, governance gaps, and policy implications
This study presents the first comprehensive global mapping and inductive classification of digital welfare platforms. Drawing on an original dataset of 285 cases spanning diverse institutional and geographical contexts, it identifies fiv...
08
DOI 10.1017/s174413312610067x
Open DOI
An investment too good to be true?: Reassessing the World Health Organization and World Bank return-on-investment estimates for pandemic preparedness
The World Health Organization, World Bank, G20 and related health agencies have requested annual investments of US$31.1 billion in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. To justify these unprecedented costs, they rely on a retur...
09
DOI 10.1017/s1744133126100632
Open DOI
EU excess capacity management through member states-driven patient mobility: economic and legal aspects
Capacity management plays an increasingly important role in healthcare delivery, both at national and supranational level, in increasing value for money. In this paper, we propose using cross-border patient mobility across European Union...
10
DOI 10.1017/s1744133126100607
Open DOI
Institutional assembly under constraints: pathways to universal health coverage in Brazil, Rwanda, and China
This paper examines how Brazil, Rwanda, and China have pursued universal health coverage (UHC) beyond classical health system models developed in high-income settings. We introduce the concept of institutional assembly under constraints,...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Title from cover.
Latest issued consulted: Vol. 1, pt. 4 (Oct. 2006).
Also issued online.