About

Aims and scope

Global Health Research and Policy is an open access, multidisciplinary journal that publishes topic areas and methods addressing global health questions. These include various aspects of health research, such as health equity, health systems and policy, social determinants of health, disease burden, population health and other urgent and neglected global health issues.

Global Health Research and Policy aims to provide a forum for high quality researches on exploring regional and global health improvement and the solution for health equity.

Open access

All articles published by Global Health Research and Policy are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

As authors of articles published in Global Health Research and Policy you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the BMC license agreement.

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BMC can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Article processing charges (APC)

Authors who publish open access in Global Health Research and Policy are required to pay an article processing charge (APC). The APC price will be determined from the date on which the article is accepted for publication.

The current APC, subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable, is: £1190.00/$1790.00/€1490.00

Visit our open access support portal and our Journal Pricing FAQs for further information.

Open access funding

Visit Springer Nature’s open access funding & support services for information about research funders and institutions that provide funding for APCs.

Springer Nature offers agreements that enable institutions to cover open access publishing costs. Learn more about our open access agreements to check your eligibility and discover whether this journal is included.

Springer Nature offers APC waivers and discounts for articles published in our fully open access journals whose corresponding authors are based in the world’s lowest income countries (see our APC waivers and discounts policy for further information). Requests for APC waivers and discounts from other authors will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and may be granted in cases of financial need (see our open access policies for journals for more information). All applications for discretionary APC waivers and discounts should be made at the point of manuscript submission; requests made during the review process or after acceptance are unable to be considered.

Indexing services

Global Health Research and Policy is indexed in:

CNKI;
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA;
DOAJ;
Dimensions;
EBSCO Discovery Service;
Emerging Sources Citation Index;
Gale;
Google Scholar;
Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China;
Medline;
Naver;
OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service;
ProQuest-ExLibris Primo;
ProQuest-ExLibris Summon;
PubMedCentral;
Qinsight;
Scopus;
Semantic Scholar;
TD Net Discovery Service

The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.

Global Health Research and Policy operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous. The benefit of single-blind peer review is that it is the traditional model of peer review that many reviewers are comfortable with, and it facilitates a dispassionate critique of a manuscript.

Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two or more experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board.

Editorial policies

The editorial policies of Global Health Research and Policy are determined jointly by its Editorial Board and Springer Nature in accordance with the legal and regulatory requirements of China. Unless otherwise stipulated in these guidelines, all manuscripts submitted to Global Health Research and Policy should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.

Appeals and complaints

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies .

Benefits of publishing with BMC

High visibility

Global Health Research and Policy's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.

Speed of publication

Global Health Research and Policy offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF.

Flexibility

Online publication in Global Health Research and Policy gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in Global Health Research and Policy are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on Global Health Research and Policy’s pages and on the BMC homepage.

In addition, articles published in Global Health Research and Policy may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Global Health Research and Policy. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BMC is available here.

Copyright

As an author of an article published in Global Health Research and Policy you retain the copyright of your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work (for further details, see the BMC license agreement).

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