Selected Journals for Publications in Health Geography Research
American Journal of Public Health
- Scope: publication of original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health.The mission of the Journal is to advance public health research, policy, practice, and education.
- Impact Factor (IF): 4,13
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 4000
- Language: English
Australian Health Review (Includes: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy)
- Scope: Australian Health Review is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes contributions on all aspects of health policy, management and governance; healthcare delivery systems; workforce; health financing; and other matters of interest to those working in health care. In addition to analyses and commentary, the journal publishes original research from practitioners – managers and clinicians – and reports of breakthrough projects that demonstrate better ways of delivering care. Australian Health Review explores major national and international health issues and questions, enabling health professionals to keep their fingers on the pulse of the nation’s health decisions and to know what the most influential commentators and decision makers are thinking.
- Impact Factor (IF): 0,82
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 3000
- Language: English
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- Scope: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of health information technologies and decision-making within the healthcare setting.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1,6
- Access: 1.600,00 € (Cost for open access)
- Language: English
BMC Public Health
- Scope: BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health. The journal has a special focus on the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2,209
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Language: English
Children's Geographies
- Scope:Children's Geographies is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes leading edge research and scholarship relating to children, young people and families. The Journal publishes internationally excellent new work relating to any aspect of the geographies of children, young people and families. Although focused upon geographical issues and spatial concepts, the journal welcomes multi- and inter-disciplinary submissions from researchers in areas such as Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Economic Development, Education, Psychology, Legal Studies, Social Policy, Political Science, Urban Design and Architecture. The Journal also provides a forum for policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in these fields. The Journal’s Editorial Board supports the involvement of early career and international researchers.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1
- Language: English
Cities
- Scope: Cities publishes articles on many aspects of urban planning and policy. Topics covered include: urban adaptation to climate change; gentrification and housing; homelessness and welfare services; urban management; public-private sector cooperation; development and planning problems; urban regeneration; neighborhood conservation and urban design; immigration and international labor migration; urban politics; urban theory; urban governance; smart cities and regions; infrastructure; livability and quality of life; greening; and the complexities of creating sustainable cities. Topics that are NOT of interest to our journal include: healthcare and health services, criminal justice, noise, air and water pollution, waste management, marketing, retail planning and design, architectural theory, tourism, GIS and remote sensing applications in urban growth or land use studies without significant planning applications, econometrics modeling, and highly experimental quantitative techniques. Urban transportation planning articles will be entertained selectively. We encourage authors to submit their articles to specialty planning journals when dealing with topics such as transportation urban morphological studies.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2,051
- Access: An open access publication fee is payable by authors or on their behalf
- Lenght: 5000-6000
- Language: English
Environmental Health
- Scope: Environmental Health publishes manuscripts on all aspects of environmental and occupational medicine and related studies in toxicology and epidemiology.
- Impact Factor (IF): 3,453
- Access: open access
- Language: English
Environmental Health Perspectives
- Scope: Highly represented research areas include epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, risk assessment, public health, and climate change. In addition, each issue includes a section devoted to children’s health research, and each year the October issue focuses on children’s health. EHP also addresses ethical, legal, social, and policy issues.
- Impact Factor (IF): 8,44
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: ≤ 5000
- Language: English
Environmental Science and Policy
- Scope: Environmental Science and Policy promotes communication among government, business and industry, academia, and non-governmental organisations who are instrumental in the solution of environmental problems. It also seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of policy relevance on environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, environmental pollution and wastes, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, sustainability, and the interactions among these issues. The journal emphasises the linkages between these environmental issues and social and economic issues such as production, transport, consumption, growth, demographic changes, well-being, and health.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2,972
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 7000
- Language: English
European Journal of Public Health
- Scope: The European Journal of Public Health is a multidisciplinary journal in the field of public health, publishing contributions from social medicine, epidemiology, health services research, management, ethics and law, health economics, social sciences, and environmental health.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2,751
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 5000
- Language: English
GeoHealth
- Scope: Environmental and occupational health, Outdoor and indoor air quality and pollution, Food safety and security, Water quality, water waste treatment and water availability, Toxic waste, environmental pollutants and remediation, Climate change in relation to human, agricultural, and environmental health and diseases, Soil health and services, Ecosystem health and services, Environmentally related epidemiology, Asbestos and other mining diseases and safety, Geoethics, National and international laws and policy, as well as remediation around GeoHealth issues
- Impact Factor (IF): 5,6
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Language: English
Geospatial Health
- Scope: The focus of the journal is on all aspects of the application of geographical information systems, remote sensing, global positioning systems, spatial statistics and other geospatial tools in human and veterinary health. The journal publishes two issues per year.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1,093
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Language: English
Global Health Action
- Scope: Global Health Action is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal affiliated with the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research (UCGHR) at Umeå University, Sweden, and published by Co-Action Publishing. The UCGHR is the research arm of the Unit of Epidemiology and Global Health, which also hosts the Umeå International School of Public Health, the Swedish Research School for Global Health, and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1,712
- Access: free/charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 6000
- Language: English
Global Public Health
- Scope: Global Public Health is an essential peer-reviewed journal that energetically engages with key public health issues that have come to the fore in the global environment — mounting inequalities between rich and poor, the globalization of trade, new patterns of travel and migration, epidemics of newly-emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the increase in chronic illnesses, escalating pressure on public health infrastructures around the world, and the growing range and scale of conflict situations, terrorist threats, environmental pressures, natural and human-made disasters.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1,978
- Lenght in word: 6500
- Language: English
Health Affairs
- Scope:Health Affairs explores health policy issues of current concern in domestic and international spheres. Its mission is to serve as a high-level, nonpartisan forum to promote analysis and discussion on improving health and health care, and to address such issues as cost, quality, and access.
- Impact Factor (IF): 5,23
- Access: Unrestricted Access for subscribers; non-subscribers access to articles older than 3 years
- Lenght in word: 2500-5000
- Language: English
Health and Social Care in the Community
- Scope: Health and Social Care in the Community is an international peer-reviewed journal with a multidisciplinary audience including social workers, health care professionals with a community or public health focus e.g. public health practitioners, GP’s, Community Nurses and Social Care researchers and educators.The Journal promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of health and social care. Original papers are sought that reflect the broad range of policy, practice and theoretical issues underpinning the provision of care in the community. Health and Social Care in the Community publishes systematic and narrative reviews, policy analysis and empirical qualitative or quantitative papers including papers that focus on professional or patient education.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2.0
- Language: English
Health and Place
- Scope: The journal is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of all aspects of health in which spatial relation plays a role
- Impact Factor (IF):3.07
- Access: Free / charges for open access
- Lenght in word: 4000-6000
- Language: English
Health Policy and Planning
- Scope: Health Policy and Planning publishes high-quality health policy and systems research that aims to inform policy and practice in low and middle income countries.
- Impact Factor (IF):3.05
- Access: For a fee, authors can request that their paper be made open-access - reduced charges will apply to authors in low and middle income countries.
- Language: English
Health Policy Journal
- Scope: Health Policy is intended to be a vehicle for the exploration and discussion of health policy and health system issues and is aimed in particular at enhancing communication between health policy and system researchers, legislators, decision-makers and professionals concerned with developing, implementing, and analysing health policy, health systems and health care reforms, primarily in high-income countries outside the U.S.A.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1.7
- Access: 2500$
- Lenght in word: 4000
- Language: English
International Health
- Scope: International Health publishes original, peer-reviewed articles and reviews on all aspects of global health including the social and economic aspects of communicable and non-communicable diseases, health systems research, policy and implementation, and the evaluation of disease control programmes and healthcare delivery solutions.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1,621
- Access: open access: many articles older than a few month
- Lenght in word: 3500
- Language: English
International Journal for Equity and Health
- Scope: International Journal for Equity in Health presents evidence relevant to the search for, and attainment of, equity in health across and within countries. International Journal for Equity in Health publishes research which improves the understanding of issues that influence the health of populations. This includes the discussion of political, policy-related, economic, social and health services-related influences, particularly with regard to systematic differences in distributions of one or more aspects of health in population groups defined demographically, geographically, or socially.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2,378
- Language: English
International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
- Scope: The journal publishes original research articles, focusing on family health care, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health administration, health care delivery, national health problems, medical anthropology and social medicine, invited annotations and comments, invited papers on recent advances, clinical and epidemiological diagnosis and management review article, short communication/brief reports, letters to the editor, case reports, etc. The journal covers population based studies, impact assessment, monitoring and evaluation, systematic review, meta-analysis, clinic-social studies etc., related to any domain and discipline of public health, especially relevant to national priorities, including ethical and social issues
- Access: free
- Language: English
International Journal of Environmental Research of Public Health
- Scope: It links several scientific disciplines including biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, cellular and molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, ecology, engineering, epidemiology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, oncology, pathology, pharmacology, and toxicology, in an integrated fashion, to address critical issues related to environmental quality and public health. Therefore, IJERPH focuses on the publication of scientific and technical information on the impacts of natural phenomena and anthropogenic factors on the quality of our environment, the interrelationships between environmental health and the quality of life, as well as the socio-cultural, political, economic, and legal considerations related to environmental stewardship and public health.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2,035
- Language: English
International Journal of Health Geographics
- Scope: International Journal of Health Geographics is fully dedicated to publishing novel, high quality and internationally significant manuscripts on all aspects of geospatial information systems and science applications in health and healthcare. International Journal of Health Geographics covers a wide range of interdisciplinary geospatial topics in a health/healthcare context, from spatial data infrastructure and Web geospatial interoperability research, to research into real-time Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-enabled surveillance services, remote sensing applications, spatial epidemiology, spatio-temporal statistics, and even cyberspace mapping. The journal is thus of interest to audiences from many different fields.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2.2
- Access: 1.410,00 €
- Language: English
International Journal of Health Services
- Scope: The International Journal of Health Services contains articles on health and social policy, political economy and sociology, history and philosophy, ethics and law in the areas of health and well-being. The Journal provides analysis of developments in the health and social sectors of every area of the world, including relevant scholarly articles, position papers, and stimulating debates about the most controversial issues of the day. It is of interest to health professionals and social scientists interested in the many different facets of health, disease, and health care.
- Impact Factor (IF): 0.782
- Language: English
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
- Scope: The International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health serves as a multidisciplinary forum for original reports on exposure assessment and the reactions to and consequences of human exposure to the biological, chemical, and physical environment. Research reports, short communications, reviews, scientific comments, technical notes, and editorials will be peer-reviewed before acceptance for publication. High priority will be given to articles on epidemiological aspects of environmental toxicology, health risk assessments, susceptible (sub) populations, human biomonitoring, environment-related infections, environmental medicine, and public health aspects of exposure-related outcomes
- Impact Factor (IF): 3,98
- Access: free/ charges authors for open access
- Language: English
International Journal of Medicine and Public Health
- Scope: peer reviewed, international journal, an open access journal with rapid publication of articles in all fields of Medicine, Public Health and infectious diseases. The types of article accepted include original articles, review articles, case reports, and letters to the editor. Clinical microbiology relevant immunology, pathophysiology, genetics, epidemiological, and genomics studies are also welcome. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health is an internationally targeted official publication of Phcog.Net.
- Access: free/ charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 3000
- Language: English
International Journal of Public Health and Safety
- Scope: International Journal of Public Health and Safety provides the rapid bi-monthly publication of articles in all areas related to Public Health and Safety. International Journal of Public Health and Safety is a multidisciplinary journal which provides information about Public Health, Human Health Safety, Health Education, Health Care System, Health Professional, Health Equity, Health Effects, Health Hazard, Health Risk, Nutrition Policies, Food safety, Hygiene, Safety Programs, Risk Assessment, Chronic Disease, Statistical Significance, Processed Food.The scope of the Journal is not limited to these areas but covers a wide range of research areas like Quality of Life, Primary Care, Infectious Diseases, Globalization, Nutrition, Risk Management, Adverse Health Effects, Genetic Factors etc.
- Access: free/ charges authors for open access
- Language: English
International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS)
- Scope: The journal welcomes high-impact articles on emerging public health science that covers (but not limited) to epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, family health, infectious diseases, health services research, gerontology, child health, adolescent health, behavioral medicine, rural health, chronic diseases, health promotion, evaluation and intervention, public health policy and management, health economics, occupational health and environmental health.
- Access:free/ charges authors for open access
- Language: English
International Journal of Tropical Disease & Health
- Scope: Scope of this journal pays attention to 2 main areas i.e. 1. TROPICAL Diseases Research and 2. Public Health Research Public Health Research includes all areas of general public health research. These include: Public health theory, practice and impact, Social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease; pathogenesis, clinical features, pharmacological aspects and treatment, diagnosis, epidemiological theory and fieldwork, vector biology, molecular biology, gene studies, medical microbiology, medical entomology and vaccinology and prevention, ecological and social determinants, public health and community medicine, and international health policy aspects including cost-effectiveness analyses.
- Impact Factor (IF): 0,83
- Access: free/ charges authors for open access
- Language: English
Journal of Environmental Health
- Scope: As the only direct link to the complete spectrum of environmental health topics, the JEH reaches more than 20,000 professionals working to solve problems in areas such as air quality, drinking water, food safety and protection, hazardous materials/toxic substances management, institutional environmental health, occupational safety and health, terrorism and all-hazards preparedness, vector control, wastewater management, and water pollution control/water quality.
- Impact Factor (IF): 0,48
- Access: 10$; free for members
- Language: English
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Scope: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is a truly international journal that encompasses all aspects of epidemiology and public health. It publishes original research, opinions and materials concerned with the study and improvement of communities worldwide.
- Impact Factor (IF): 3,865
- Access: free/ charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 3000
- Language: English
Journal of Public Health
- Scope: The Journal of Public Health invites submission of papers on any aspect of public health research and practice, and is published on behalf of the Faculty of Public Health.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2,019
- Language: English
Journal of Public Health Policy
- Scope: The Journal of Public Health Policy welcomes unsolicited original scientific and policy contributions on all topics relevant to public health (meaning population health). We seek manuscripts focused on policy issues of interest to public health professionals, policymakers, program participants, advocates, and scholars. We are eager to publish new scientific results, but our primary interest is in presenting insightful and original papers that contain important discussions of and contributions to policy thinking for protecting or improving the health of populations around the world.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1.4
- Access: 2600$
- Lenght in word: 4000
- Language: English
Journal of Public Health Research
- Scope: The Journal of Public Health Research is an online Open Access, peer-reviewed journal in the field of public health science. The aim of the journal is to stimulate debate and dissemination of knowledge in the public health field in order to improve efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of public health interventions to improve health outcomes of populations. This aim can only be achieved by adopting a global and multidisciplinary approach. The Journal of Public Health Research publishes contributions from both the “traditional' disciplines of public health, including hygiene, epidemiology, health education, environmental health, occupational health, health policy, hospital management, health economics, law and ethics as well as from the area of new health care fields including social science, communication science, eHealth and mHealth philosophy, health technology assessment, genetics research implications, population-mental health, gender and disparity issues, global and migration-related theme
- Access: free/ charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 6000
- Language: English
Journal of Transport and Health
- Scope: The Journal of Transport & Health (JTH) is devoted to research on the many interactions between transport and health.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1.7
- Language: Englisch
Journal of Urban Health (Oxford)
- Scope: Urban cultures in America and around the world are growing, and with this growth comes a unique set of health issues. Traditional public health and medical practices and methods must be adapted to respond to the urban population. The Journal of Urban Health reflects the focus of its parent organization, the New York Academy of Medicine, on the emerging field of urban health and epidemiology.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1.3
- Language: English
Journal of Urban Health (Springer)
- Scope: The Journal of Urban Health is the premier and authoritative source of rigorous analyses to advance the health and well-being of people in cities. The Journal provides a platform for interdisciplinary exploration of the evidence base for the broader determinants of health and health inequities needed to strengthen policies, programs, and governance for urban health. The Journal publishes original data, case studies, commentaries, book reviews, executive summaries of selected reports, and proceedings from important global meetings. It welcomes submissions presenting new analytic methods, including systems science approaches to urban problem solving. Finally, the Journal provides a forum linking scholars, practitioners, civil society, and policy makers from the multiple sectors that can influence the health of urban populations.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1.8
- Access: The journals makes no page charges
- Lenght in word: 3000-4000
- Language: English
Journal of Water and Health
- Scope: Contributions will be published on the health-related aspects of the following areas: Epidemiology, Risk assessment, Detection and ecology of pathogens in the environment, Water and wastewater treatment, Disinfection, Disinfection by-products, Indicators of water and waste quality, Regulatory issues and standard development, Water quality surveys and assessments, Monitoring, Microbial toxins (including cyanobacteria) , Chemical and physical quality of water as it affects health, Endocrine disruptors, Taste and odour, Impacts of water quality on food quality, Impact of climate change on water quality, Water based diseases, Water-based insect vectors of disease, Water policy and health, Health effectiveness of water management
- Impact Factor (IF): 1,35
- Access: free access for papers older than 2 years / charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 7500
- Language: English
Polish Journal of Environmental Studies
- Scope: One of the most important challenges facing the contemporary scientific world are problems connected with environmental protection. Intensive development of industry and agriculture has led to a rise in living standards on one hand, but an increase in environmental degradation on the other. This degradation poses a direct threat to human health and life. Solving these ever-increasing problems which seriously endanger our civilization require the united efforts of scientists and field researchers of many branches.
- Impact Factor (IF): 0.79
- Language: English
Public Health
- Scope: • Public health practice and impact • Applied Epidemiology • Need or impact assessments • Health service effectiveness, management and re-design • Health Protection including control of communicable diseases • Health promotion and disease prevention • Evaluation of public health programmes or interventions • Public health governance, audit and quality • Public health law and ethics • Public health policy and comparisons • Capacity in public health systems and workforce
- Impact Factor (IF): 1,566
- Access: free/ charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 3000
- Language: English
Revue Francophone sur la Santé et les Territoires
- The RFST is a francophone journal, however, ALL the articles published go with a long summary in english to provide visibility to these text wich, otherwise, would not be accessible for not francophone readers.Check the « summaries » tab in the english menu to access all the summaries. The RFST also provide help for non-francophones who want to publish in french.
If you need help for translation, please contact us : [email protected]
Social and Cultural Geography
- Scope: Social & Cultural Geography publishes original, high caliber, scholarly articles on the spatialities of society and culture. Its articles are especially focused on space, place and nature in relation to social and/or cultural issues, including inequalities, poverty, housing, crime, work, and leisure; as well as everyday life, consumption, identity, community and neighbourhood (and their historic legacies).
- Impact Factor (IF): 1.5
- Language: Englisch
Social Science and Medicine
- Scope: Social Science & Medicine provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of social science research on health. We publish original research articles (both empirical and theoretical), reviews, position papers and commentaries on health issues, to inform current research, policy and practice in all areas of common interest to social scientists, health practitioners, and policy makers. The journal publishes material relevant to any aspect of health from a wide range of social science disciplines (anthropology, economics, epidemiology, geography, policy, psychology, and sociology), and material relevant to the social sciences from any of the professions concerned with physical and mental health, health care, clinical practice, and health policy and organization. We encourage material which is of general interest to an international readership.
- Impact Factor (IF): 2.814
- Access: Free/ 3000 $ charges for open access
- Lenght in word: 8000
- Language: English
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology
- Scope: GIS, epidemiology, exposure science, and spatial statistics
- Impact Factor (IF): 2.6
- Access: $1.100,00
- Language: English
Sustainability Journal
- Scope: an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. Sustainability provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published monthly online by MDPI.
- Impact Factor (IF): 1.343
- Access: free/ publishing fees for authors
- Language: English
The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
- Scope: The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) strives to become the foremost international forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of information systems and technologies in developing countries.
- Language: English
The Journal of Rural Health
- Scope: Each quarterly issue of the Journal of Rural Health combines all you need to know in one accessible place. The journal is dedicated to bringing you the most up-to-date rural health research, policy discussion and education information. Its principal goal is to advance professional practice, research, theory development, and public policy related to rural health. Each issue features original research, policy assessment and educational topics to allow rural health professionals to continue to grow in their field.Join other rural health care providers, policy-makers, educators and researchers in receiving current information on rural health care
- Impact Factor (IF): 1,279
- Access: free/ charges authors for open access
- Lenght in word: 4500
- Language: English
The Lancet
- Scope: The Lancet has sought to address urgent topics in our society, initiate debate, put science into context, and influence decision makers around the world. The Lancet has evolved as a family of journals (across Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Respiratory Medicine, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Psychiatry, HIV, Haematology, and Global Health), but retains at its core the belief that medicine must serve society, that knowledge must transform society, that the best science must lead to better lives
- Impact Factor (IF): 44,002
- Lenght in word: 3000-4500
- Language: English
WHO bulletin
- Scope: The Bulletin is one of the world's leading public health journals. It is a peer-reviewed monthly journal with a special focus on developing countries, giving it unrivalled global scope and authority. The Bulletin is one of the top 10 public and environmental health journals with an impact factor of 5.089 (2014), according to the Web of Science ranking. It is essential reading for all public health decision-makers and researchers who require its special blend of research, well-informed opinion and news.
- Impact Factor (IF): 3.9
- Language: English