Patient Education and Counseling
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

Patient Education and Counseling
Overview

Impact Factor

2.94

H Index

146

Impact Factor

3.181

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

Netherlands
Journal ISSN: 07383991, 18735134
Publisher: Elsevier BV
History: 1983-ongoing
Journal Hompage: Link
How to Get Published:

Research Categories

Scope/Description:

Patient Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for patient education and health promotion researchers, managers, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. The journal seeks to explore and elucidate educational, counseling and communication models in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum for fundamental as well as applied research, and to promote the study of the delivery of patient education, counseling, and health promotion services, including training models and organizational issues in improving communication between providers and patients. The journal welcomes unsolicited manuscripts related to the field of patient education, counseling, clinical health promotion and communication in health care.

II. Science Citation Report (SCR)



Patient Education and Counseling
SCR Impact Factor

Patient Education and Counseling
SCR Journal Ranking

Patient Education and Counseling
SCImago SJR Rank

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from.

1.098

Patient Education and Counseling
Scopus 2-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Patient Education and Counseling
Scopus 3-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Patient Education and Counseling
Scopus 4-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Patient Education and Counseling
Impact Factor History

2-year 3-year 4-year
  • 2022 Impact Factor
    3.359 3.594 3.614
  • 2021 Impact Factor
    3.181 3.311 3.694
  • 2020 Impact Factor
    2.335 2.792 3.223
  • 2019 Impact Factor
    2.546 3.074 3.205
  • 2018 Impact Factor
    2.805 2.989 3.179
  • 2017 Impact Factor
    2.829 3.071 3.356
  • 2016 Impact Factor
    2.65 3.077 3.172
  • 2015 Impact Factor
    2.609 2.86 2.974
  • 2014 Impact Factor
    2.56 NA NA
  • 2013 Impact Factor
    2.595 NA NA
  • 2012 Impact Factor
    2.492 NA NA
  • 2011 Impact Factor
    2.669 NA NA
  • 2010 Impact Factor
    2.476 NA NA
  • 2009 Impact Factor
    2.322 NA NA
  • 2008 Impact Factor
    2.476 NA NA
  • 2007 Impact Factor
    2.095 NA NA
  • 2006 Impact Factor
    2.146 NA NA
  • 2005 Impact Factor
    1.783 NA NA
  • 2004 Impact Factor
    1.725 NA NA
  • 2003 Impact Factor
    1.51 NA NA
  • 2002 Impact Factor
    1.225 NA NA
  • 2001 Impact Factor
    1.253 NA NA
  • 2000 Impact Factor
    1.017 NA NA
Note: impact factor data for reference only

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Impact Factor

Impact factor (IF) is a scientometric factor based on the yearly average number of citations on articles published by a particular journal in the last two years. A journal impact factor is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. Find out more: What is a good impact factor?


III. Other Science Influence Indicators

Any impact factor or scientometric indicator alone will not give you the full picture of a science journal. There are also other factors such as H-Index, Self-Citation Ratio, SJR, SNIP, etc. Researchers may also consider the practical aspect of a journal such as publication fees, acceptance rate, review speed. (Learn More)

Patient Education and Counseling
H-Index

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications

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Patient Education and Counseling
H-Index History