Journal History
2013 | The inaugural issue was released. Healthcare was published as a quarterly journal. |
2016 | Changed to publish in article number order instead of in page range order; The journal Twitter account was established; Healthcare was indexed in PubMed (NLM). |
2017 | Healthcare was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) - Web of Science. |
2018 | Healthcare announced the first edition of the Outstanding Reviewer Award. The first International Electronic Conference on Healthcare (IECH), sponsored by Healthcare, was held on Sciforum. |
2019 | Healthcare was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) - Web of Science, from Vol. 5. Launched a new position—Topic Editor Healthcare published its 500th paper. |
2020 | Healthcare received its first Impact Factor (1.916). Healthcare was indexed in Scopus. Healthcare published its 1000th paper. Healthcare established the following sections: -Chronic Care; -Community Care; -COVID-19 Pandemic; -Forensic Medicine; -Health Assessments; -Health Policy; -Medication Management; -Pain Management; -Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine; -Prehospital Care; -School Health. |
2021 | Healthcare established the following sections: -Critical Care; -Medics. The Impact Factor increased to 2.645 in 2021. |
2022 | Healthcare received its first CiteScore (2021) of 2.0. The Impact Factor increased to 3.160 in 2022. |
Editor-in-Chief
2013–2015 | Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Manu Malbrain |
2015–2020 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sampath Parthasarathy |
2021–present | Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Rahman Shiri |
Section Editor-in-Chief
2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Tin-Chih Toly Chen for the section on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sampath Parthasarathy for the section on COVID-19 Pandemic Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Nandu Goswami for the section on Environmental Factors and Global Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Mariano Cingolani for the section on Forensic Medicine Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jose M. Moran for the section on Nursing Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Roberto Verna for the section on Nutrition and Public Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Abdel-Latif Mohamed for the section on Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. H. Michael Marsh for the section on Perioperative Care Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Søren Mikkelsen for the section on Prehospital Care Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Krzysztof Laudanski for the section on TeleHealth and Digital Healthcare Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. José Carmelo Adsuar for the section on Women Health |
2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Robbert Gobbens for the section on Community Care |