Health Systems & Reform (HS&R) is a fully open access journal publishing research, theory, and analysis for the field of health systems and reform.
HS&R aims to be the catalyst for cross-national knowledge transfer and translation on innovative, equitable, and cost-effective approaches to improve the performance of health systems and health care delivery. The journal seeks to publish articles that share cutting-edge knowledge, skills, and lessons in health systems and reform. Most importantly, HS&R contributes to strengthening health systems and to improving care delivered to patients. The journal is committed to bringing research by scholars in emerging nations to the attention of the global academic community.
The journal publishes articles that examine the processes and consequences of health reform efforts from around the world, from national and cross-national perspectives. These articles include both analyses and recommendations, as well as short reports on innovative policies. The journal also publishes commentaries from health care leaders—such as Ministers of Health, CEOs of healthcare companies, and heads of non-profit organizations and international agencies—who share their experiences and policy lessons with a global audience.
Health Systems & Reform is most interested in the following topics:
Health systems financing
Health systems management
Health care technologies
Public health
Health policy
Health politics
Health economics
Health Systems & Reform accepts research articles, commentaries and policy reports.
The journal operates a single anonymized peer review policy.
58 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
21% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Associate Editors Adanna Chukwuma - Impact Management, Visa Inc.; former World Bank, Washington, DC, US Octavio Gómez Dantés - National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, MX Aya Goto - Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, JP David Peters - Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, CA Susan P. Sparkes - World Health Organization, Geneva, CH Veronika Wirtz - Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US Abdo Yazbeck - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, US Winnie Yip - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US
Editorial Advisors William Hsiao - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston, MA, US Elias Mossialos - London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Editorial Board Irene Agyepong - University of Ghana School of Public Health, Legon, GH Uche Amazigo - Former Director of African Program for Onchocerciasis Control, Ouagadougou, BF Joseph Antoun - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US Peter Berman - University of British Colombia, Vancouver, CA Kavi Bhalla - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US Nathan Blanchet - Results for Development, Washington, DC, US Gerry Bloom - Institute of Developmental Studies, Brighton, UK Thomas Bossert - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US Diana Bowser - W.F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, US Jesse Bump - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US Marcia Castro - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US Kevin Croke - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US Anahi Dreser - National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, MX Victoria Fan – Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, US Ashley Fox - Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, University at Albany, Albany, NY, US Agnes Gatome-Munyua – Results for Development, Nairobi, Kenya Asha George - University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, ZA Amanda Glassman - InterAmerican Development Bank, Washington, DC, US Andy Gray - Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, ZA Karen Grépin - University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Joseph Harris - Boston University, Boston, MA, US Panos Kanavos - London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Minah Kang - Ewha Womans University, Seoul, KR Joseph Kutzin – Independent Consultant, Genolier, CH Rafael Lozano - University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US Ajay Mahal - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, AU Nicholas Mays - London School of Hygiene and Topical Medicine, London, UK Barbara McPake - Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne, AU Corrina Moucheraud - NYU School of Global Public Health, New York, NY, US Gustavo Nigenda - Universidad National Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, MX Ole F. Norheim - University of Bergen, Bergen, NO Friday Okonofua - Ondo State University of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, NG Stefan Peterson - Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE Diana Pinto - Independent Consultant, Bogota, Colombia Ravi Rannan-Eliya - Institute of Health Policy, Sri Lanka, Colombo, LK Sujatha Rao - Former Secretary of Health, India, New Delhi, IN Peter Rockers - Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US Caroline Rudissil - University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, SC, US Helen Schneider - University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, ZA Kenji Shibuya - The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Tokyo, JP Zubin Cyrus Shroff - Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, CH Susan Sparkes - World Health Organization, Geneva, CH Sarah Thomson - WHO Regional Office for Europe, Barcelona, ES Elaine Thume - Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, BR Stephen Tollman - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, ZA Goran Tomson - Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE Taryn Vian – School of Nursing and Health Professions, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, US Pablo Villalobos Dintrans – Millennium Institute for Care Research (MICARE), Santiago, Chile Hong Wang - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WA, US Prashant Yadav - Center for Global Development, Washington DC, US Bong-Min Yang - Korean Association of Health Technology Assessment, Seoul, KR Thomas Zeltner - Former Minister of Health of Switzerland, Berne, CH Terence C. Cheng - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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