HSMR is the official journal of the European Health Management Association (EHMA).

Health Services Management Research (HSMR) is an authoritative international peer-reviewed journal which exists to publish theoretically and empirically rigorous research on questions of enduring interest and concern to health-care organizations and systems throughout the world.

It aims to serve an international community of academics and researchers on the one hand and healthcare managers, executives, policymakers and clinicians on the other.

With that in mind it aims to make a substantial contribution both to research and to managerial practice, and particular emphasis is placed on publishing research papers which offer actionable findings and on promoting knowledge mobilisation.

Health Services Management Research is abstracted and indexed in the following databases: