General Global Health
Global Public Health
A 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.
Directed and supported by a leading international board of experts, the journal is broad-based and wide-ranging, including work that draws on the environmental health sciences; epidemiology; health policy and management; and the social sciences as applied to public health and medicine. It is characterized, and distinguished from other journals currently available in the field by its:
- global and multidisciplinary focus;
- emphasis on significant global health issues, including their social and cultural dimensions as appropriate;
- concern to understand resource-poor and resource-rich countries, and the public health challenges they face, as part of a single, interacting, global system.
Publishing frequency: 10 issues a year
Global Journal of Health Science
A peer-reviewed, open access journal. The journal aims to provide a platform for the global research community to share their findings, insights and views about all aspects of health science.
Authors are encouraged to submit complete, unpublished, original works in the fields of public health, community health, behavioral health, health policy, health service, health education, health economics, medical ethics, health protection, environmental health, and equity in health.
Publishing frequency: Monthly
Global Health Promotion
An official publication of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). It is a multilingual journal, which publishes authoritative peer-reviewed articles and practical information in English, French and Spanish for a world-wide audience of professionals interested in health promotion and health education.
The journal aims to:
- Publish academic content and commentaries of practical importance in English, French and Spanish
- Provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination and exchange of theory, empirical research and evaluation about health promotion practice, health education and public health, with a particular emphasis on intervention research findings and innovative strategies for health promotion.
- Publish articles which ensure wide geographical coverage and are of general interest to an international readership
- Provide fair, supportive, efficient and high quality peer review and editorial handling of all submissions.
Publishing frequency: Quarterly plus supplements
Global Health Action
This international peer-reviewed journal is affiliated with the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research (UCGHR) at Umeå University, Sweden. The aim of the journal is to contribute to fuelling a more concrete, hands-on approach to addressing global health challenges. Manuscripts suggesting strategies for practical interventions where none already exist are specifically welcomed. Further, the journal encourages articles from low- and middle-income countries, while also welcoming South-South and South-North collaborations. All articles are expected to address a global agenda and include a strong implementation or policy component.
Publishing frequency: Irregular
PLOS ONE
The world’s first multidisciplinary Open Access journal, PLOS ONE accepts scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty. PLOS ONE’s broad scope provides a platform to publish primary research, including interdisciplinary and replication studies as well as negative results. The journal’s publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported.
Publishing frequency: Irregular
PLOS Medicine
Publishes articles relevant to clinicians, policymakers, and researchers across a range of settings that address the major biological, environmental, social, and political determinants of health. The editors make decisions on submissions based upon their potential to directly and substantially inform clinical practice or health policy, and their relevance to our international audience.
Articles given highest priority for publication are those that address conditions or risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life and quality of life worldwide.
PLOS Medicine also seeks to publish articles in the area of translational medicine that provide substantial, novel mechanistic insights into disease processes, with potential implications for clinical care. Additionally PLOS Medicine considers articles on topics relating to the integrity and ethics of the research enterprise; the practice of medicine; and the application of research to practice to fall within its scope.
Publishing frequency: Monthly
New England Journal of Medicine
NEJM presents original articles and interpretive reviews of a variety of developments in the major aspects of medicine, its science, its art and practice and its position in today's society. Since 1812, NEJM has worked with the author community to publish the highest quality evidence that advances medical science and improves patient care. The NEJM has the highest ranking of any research journal and reaches millions of readers in more than 175 countries.
NEJM provides delayed free online access to its research articles (it does so six months after publication, and maintains that access dating back to 1990). This delay does not apply to readers from the least developed countries, for whom the content is available at no charge for personal use.
Publishing frequency: Weekly
Lancet Global Health
Publishes high-quality original research, commentary, correspondence, and blogs on a subscription-free (open access) basis. All health-related subjects are considered: our focus is on disadvantaged populations, be they whole economic regions or marginalised groups within otherwise prosperous nations. The following topics are particularly welcomed: reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health; adolescent health; infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases; non-communicable diseases; mental health; the global health workforce; health systems; surgery; and health policy.
Publishing frequency: Monthly
The Lancet
An international general medical journal thatpublishes clinical papers, state-of-the-art reviews, letters, news, and any original contribution that advances or illuminates medical science or practice, or that educates or entertains the journal's readers.
When writing your article for The Lancet,remember that it is the general reader whom you are trying to reach. One way to find out if you have succeeded is to show your draft to colleagues in other specialties. If they do not understand, neither, very probably, will The Lancet's staff or readers.
Publishing frequency: Weekly
Public Health Reports
The official journal of the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Surgeon General and has been published since 1878. The journal is peer-reviewed and publishes original research and commentaries in the areas of public health practice and methodology, original research, public health law, and public health schools and teaching. Issues contain regular commentaries by the U.S. Surgeon General and executives of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health.
The journal focuses upon such topics as tobacco control, teenage violence, occupational disease and injury, immunization, drug policy, lead screening, health disparities, and many other key and emerging public health issues. In addition to the six regular issues, PHR produces supplemental issues approximately 2-5 times per year which focus on specific topics that are of particular interest to our readership.
Publishing frequency: Bi-Monthly plus supplements
