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Acceptance rate:
21%
Time to first decision with review:
92 days*
Time from acceptance to publication:
28 days*
Total content views:
10,229
Total Altmetric mentions:
655
Aims and scope
BMJ Public Health is an international, open access and peer-reviewed journal of public health. We publish work related to all aspects of public health, from global issues such as the impact of climate change on population health, to studies conducted in specific locations.
Underpinning the journal is BMJ's primary purpose: to share knowledge and expertise that improve health outcomes through better evidence, better decisions and better systems. BMJ Public Health will work with the public health community, at all levels, to publish rigorous qualitative and quantitative research and analysis to drive evidence-based public health policy and practice.
The journal welcomes submissions on a range of topics, including health policy, health systems, gender issues in health, mental and behavioural health, digital health, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, chronic diseases and disease outbreaks. We also welcome submissions that focus on the social determinants of health and well-being, including nutrition, socio-economic status, health literacy, physical activity, and the environment using a broad range of methods from the social and biomedical sciences.
Editorial Board
For information about the BMJ Public Health editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Journal information
Publication Model
BMJ Public Health is owned by BMJ.
Publication Model
Open access
Frequency
Continuous online publication
Launch date
2023
Peer review model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Online ISSN
2753-4294
Journal Statistics 2023
Acceptance rate: 21%
Speed
Time to first decision with review: 92 days (median)
Time to first decision without review: 3 days (median)
Time from acceptance to publication: 28 days (median)
Reach
Total content views: 10,229
Total Altmetric mentions: 655
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
How we get these metrics
Affiliations
BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The mission of OASPA is to support and represent the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. BMJ Publishing Group has been a member since 2009.
Open Access articles in BMJ Public Health are licensed using either Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) or Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license. These licenses let others distribute, remix, tweak and build upon your work.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.