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Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
Sexual and Reproductive Health
The journal aims to serve its readers as an authoritative resource of disseminating significant sexual and reproductive healthcare related scientific information. Our key audience:
- Midwives
- Maternity care and neonatal nurses
- Maternity service users
- Obstetricians
- Neonatologists
- Pediatricians
- Health sociologists and economists
- Psychologists with an interest in maternal and infant research
- Policy makers in sexual and reproductive healthcare
- Researchers
The journal welcomes original papers in all aspects of sexual and reproductive healthcare including: Family planning and contraception, Pregnancy, Labour and birth, Breast feeding, Post-natal period and early parenthood, Abortion, Sexually transmitted infections, Involuntary childlessness, Issues related to the menopausal and post-menopausal years, Professional development and organization of sexual and reproductive healthcare. The journal publishes the following types of paper: original research articles, reviews, short communications, letters to the editor and commentaries.
Publishing frequency: Quarterly
Midwifery
Publishes the latest peer reviewed international research to inform the safety, quality, outcomes and experiences of pregnancy, birth and maternity care for childbearing women, their babies and families. The journal’s publications support midwives and maternity care providers to explore and develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes informed by best available evidence.
Midwifery provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the publication, dissemination and discussion of advances in evidence, controversies and current research, and promotes continuing education through publication of systematic and other scholarly reviews and updates. Midwifery articles cover the cultural, clinical, psycho-social, sociological, epidemiological, education, managerial, workforce, organizational and technological areas of practice in preconception, maternal and infant care, maternity services and other health systems.
Publication frequency: Monthly
Population and Environment
The sole social science journal focused on interdisciplinary research on social demographic aspects of environmental issues. The journal publishes cutting-edge research that contributes new insights on the complex, reciprocal links between human populations and the natural environment. The journal covers important international issues and embraces all the main fields in population studies and their environmental dimensions. Quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods contributions are welcome.
Disciplines commonly represented include demography, geography, sociology, human ecology, environmental economics, public health, anthropology and environmental studies. Examples of relevant topics include:
- Fertility and land availability, tenure systems
- Mortality or morbidity and environmental, pollutant exposures
- Migration and natural resource decline
- Health, well being and environmental implications of development
- Social stratification and natural hazards
- Quality of life and environmental amenities
- Population redistribution and land use change
- Population composition and energy consumption
- Urbanization’s impact on environment and human health
- Gender and environmental concern
- Disease patterns and climate change
- Demographic aspects of consumption-environment linkages
Publishing frequency: Quarterly
Lancet HIV
Delivering a holistic view of the pandemic, The Lancet HIV publishes original research, comment, and correspondence that unifies clinical, epidemiological, and operational disciplines across a single vision of health for those living with HIV. The journal will cover innovative treatments and the biological research underpinning such developments, novel methods of service delivery, and new ways of confronting HIV/AIDS worldwide.
Publishing frequency: Monthly
Journal of Population Research
Publishes peer-reviewed papers on demography and population-related issues. International in scope, the journal presents original research papers, perspectives, review articles and shorter technical research notes. The range of coverage extends to substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. The journal also offers special issues arising from conferences and other meetings.
Publishing frequency: Quarterly
Journal of Adolescence
An international, broad based, cross-disciplinary journal that addresses issues of professional and academic importance concerning development between puberty and the attainment of adult status within society. It provides a forum for all who are concerned with the nature of adolescence, whether involved in teaching, research, guidance, counseling, treatment, or other services.
The aim of the journal is to encourage research and foster good practice through publishing both empirical and clinical studies as well as integrative reviews and theoretical advances. The Journal of Adolescence is essential reading for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and youth workers in practice, and for university and college faculty in the fields of psychology, sociology, education, criminal justice, and social work.
Research Areas Encompassed:
- Adolescent development with particular emphasis on personality, social, and emotional functioning
- Effective coping techniques for the demands of adolescence
- Disturbances and disorders of adolescence
- Treatment approaches and other interventions
Publishing frequency: 8 issues a year
Health Systems and Reform
Dedicated to bridging research, theory and analysis with knowledge and experience in health systems and reform, and aims at becoming a global platform for sharing positive and normative lessons in this field. Most health systems around the world are at various stages of reform cycles.
Aging, chronic diseases, persistent infectious diseases, and new healthcare technologies are among mounting challenges that require innovative and cost-effective approaches to healthcare delivery and reform. On the other hand, there is no international journal that is dedicated to catalyzing cross-national knowledge transfer and translation in health systems and reform. HS&R will fill this gap.
HS&R strives to become the journal of excellence and reference in health systems and reform. The journal’s mission is to create a global platform for sharing cutting edge knowledge, skills, and lessons in health systems and reform and to provide answers that matter for leaders, professionals, and students looking for research, data, information, with a focus on lessons for health systems and reform. Most importantly, HS&R will contribute to strengthening health systems and to improving care delivered to patients.
Each issue of HS&R will include cutting-edge research articles and commentaries addressing critical topics in health systems financing, health systems management, public health, health policy, and health economics.
Publishing frequency: Quarterly
European Journal of Population
Aims to improve understanding of population phenomena by giving priority to work that contributes to the development of theory and method, and that spans the boundaries between demography and such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, epidemiology and other sciences contributing to public health. Contributors come from around the world, and the coverage includes both European and non-European countries.
The journal addresses a broad public of researchers, policy makers and others concerned with population processes and their consequences.
Publishing frequency: Quarterly
Lancet Infectious Diseases
A lively monthly journal of original research, review, opinion, and news covering international issues relevant to clinical infectious diseases specialists worldwide.e literature in important fields of development policy. The journal is recognised for providing a global, authoritative, and independent forum for the highest quality infectious diseases research and opinion, covering such areas as the treatment and research of HIV/AIDS, antibiotic resistance, emerging infections, and public health.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Anti-infective therapy and immunisation
- Bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infections
- Emerging infectious diseases
- HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis and mycobacterial infections
- Infection control
- Infectious diseases epidemiology
- Neglected tropical diseases and travel medicine
Publishing frequency: Monthly
Journal of Development Studies
One of the best known international journals in the area of development studies. Since its foundation in 1964, it has published many seminal articles on development and opened up new areas of debate.
Priority is given to papers which are:
- relevant to important current research in development policy, theory and analysis
- make a novel and significant contribution to the field
- provide critical tests, based on empirical work, of alternative theories, perspectives or chools of thought
The journal invites articles that are interdisciplinary or focused on particular disciplines (e.g. economics, politics, geography, sociology or anthropology), with an expectation that all work is accessible to readers across the social sciences.
Publishing frequency: Monthly
