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New Impact Factor for Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy: 1.4

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy (JHMHP) has attained its latest impact factor for the 2025 citation year: 1.4.

Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy 2025 CiteScore Released: 1.7

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy (JHMHP) has achieved its 2025 CiteScore: 1.7. JHMHP ranks as follows across various categories: 224 out of 330 in Health Policy, 370 out of 506 in Strategy and Management, 29 out of 41 in Leadership and Management, and 48 out of 64 in Health Information Management. This milestone underscores our ongoing commitment to publishing impactful research in the field.

Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2026)

In 2026, many JHMHP authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspective and insightful view as authors.

Annual Report of JHMHP 2025

Greetings from Prof. Jiechun Gao and the Editorial Office of JHMHP!

We are pleased to share the 2025 Annual Report of Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy.

We would especially like to express our sincere gratitude to the editorial board members, guest editors, reviewers, authors and readers for all your support and contributions to JHMHP.

We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2026!

AME and Wolters Kluwer aim to expand access to global medical research through new collaboration

The agreement broadens the reach of nearly 50 Open Access titles, contributing globally to over 5,000 articles

October 2, 2025 — Wolters Kluwer Health announced a new collaboration with AME Publishing Company, an Open Access publisher specializing in medical journals and books, headquartered in Hong Kong, China.

Reviewer of the Month (2026)

In 2026, JHMHP reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

Interviews with Editorial Board Members

JHMHP features a distinguished editorial board, the members of which continue to instill the power of their expertise for the journal’s development. By launching this column, we are glad to introduce to you some of them in the form of interviews, in which they will share their unique career experiences and perspectives. We believe their insights will shed light on the knowledge of related fields.

Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy is officially indexed by Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

On April 18, 2024, Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy (JHMHP) received an official notice that it had been selected for coverage in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Web of Science™ Core Collection. Articles published after 2022, beginning with 6(1), will be included.

Implementation of transparent peer review at Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy (JHMHP)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to JHMHP from March 19, 2020.

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Impact of dual Medicare and Medicaid eligibility status on mortality for cancer patients across hospital types in the USA: a retrospective cohort study

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A narrative review of integrating medical ethics and cost-effectiveness evaluation in Japan’s clinical practice guidelines

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Brief Report

A clinical laboratories compound located in an underground fortified emergency hospital: the rambam health care campus model

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Antimicrobial resistance stewardship in dental practice: a knowledge, attitudes, and practices study of dentist in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

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Behavioral factors of medical center patients regarding treatment compliance: confirmatory factor analysis model

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Intravenous specialist nursing teams in Qingdao’s tertiary hospitals: current status, resource stratification, and global implication

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Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy is an international, open access, peer-reviewed online journal for dissemination of hospital management and health policy research, including but not limited to hospital leadership and management, health organization and organizational behaviour in hospital, healthcare services, healthcare quality and patient safety, health facilities management, hospital accreditation, patient and employee satisfaction, pain management, inpatient and out-patient management, health insurance, health policy and healthcare informatics etc.