Which global health journal do you recommend…?
I’m often asked by students and colleagues to suggest a suitable global health journal for their work. A while back, I compiled this table of journals that publish research on global health. It’s not bang up to date and you will need to check the journal website for the latest on their impact factors, terms and conditions etc. Hopefully, you will find amongst these the perfect home for your next eminent contribution to global health.
No doubt I’ve missed some. Please add your suggestions in the comments box and I’ll update the table.
Andrew
Thanks for organizing this list. I would also suggest the following:
* Health economics
* Journal of health economics
* International journal for health care finance and economics
* International journal for quality in health care
Hey, that was quick! Thanks Victoria.
The Global History of Health is now an emerging subdiscipline within the field of History of Medicine. Some journals where important work has recently been published (with examples) include:
- Past and Present, ISSN 1477-464X: Lester K. Little, “Plague Historians in Lab Coats,” Past and Present (2011) 213(1): 267-290 doi:10.1093/pastj/gtr014
- Medical History, ISSN 0025-7273, open access through PubMedCentral: Akihito Suzuki, “Smallpox and the Epidemiological Heritage of Modern Japan: Towards a Total History,” Med Hist. 2011 July; 55(3): 313–318.
- Journal of Global History, ISSN 1740-0236: Anne Sealey, “Globalizing the 1926 International Sanitary Convention,” Journal of Global History 6, no. 3 (2011), 431-55
Thanks Monica – some interesting stuff here. Just looking at Virginia Berridge’s publications list and could add Bulletin of the History of Medicine and probably a few more from this subdiscipline
Another one to add – The Journal of Global Health: a student-run journal seeking to provide a platform for grass roots movements and activists http://www.ghjournal.org/about-jgh/journal/
A new open access journal International Journal of MCH and AIDS is just starting up for “public health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers around the world who are in positions to make meaningful change in global health through their works”. See their call for papers if you would like to contribute to the inaugural issue.
In 2011, the new journal has been launched on the occasion of the 19th World Epidemiology Congress – “Journal of Global Health”. It is meant to become a publication of Universities and academic institutions that harbour strong global health departments and it is already endorsed by several Universities from all 6 continents. Its regional editors are among the leading global health researchers in the world today. The journal is set up to attempt to reach a very high impact factor by the end of 2013. All details can be found on the webpage http://www.jogh.org. The journal is full-text free access and contains a large “News” sections and several viewpoints in each issue.
[Editors note: this is a different journal from 'The Journal of Global Health' - see earlier comment]
Or try this open access AIDS journal – ISRN AIDS. It promises a 28 day review turnaround! http://www.isrn.com/journals/aids/
This is a really useful list, Andrew – if it is not unethical for an editor to add one, potential authors might also like to consider Critical Public Health, a respected peer-reviewed international journal which publishes critical analysis across the range of public health issues, including global health. We consider papers of up to 6000 words, or short reports up to 3000 – see the website for past papers by a number of leaders in global public health (eg Kelley Lee, Ron Labonte) and recent empirical papers and editorials on women’s health and globalisation; obesity and ‘globesization’ etc.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09581596.asp
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