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Health Informatics Journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ15710118 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Health Informatics Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers the field of health informatics. its editors-in-chief are Rob Procter (University of Warwick) and P. A. Bath (University of Sheffield). It was established in 1992 and is published by SAGE Publications. Chris Dowd (University of Sheffield) was editor from launch to 1997 and M F Smith from 1997 to 2001.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Science Citation Index Expanded

Scopus

Academic Premier

Educational Research Abstracts Online

Health & Safety Science Abstracts

MEDLINE

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 3.021, ranking it 6 out of 23 journals in the category "Medical Informatics" and 20 out of 90 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services".

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Health Informatics Journal” as journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1997, 2001, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Health, Informatics and Journal can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15710118. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1997, 2001 and 2016.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Health Informatics Journal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.