About this journal
Aims and scope
Pathogens and Global Health is a journal of infectious disease and public health that focuses on the translation of molecular, immunological, genomics and epidemiological knowledge into control measures for global health threats. The journal publishes original innovative research papers, assesses and contextualises new ideas, trends and research, and interviews policy makers and opinion leaders on health subjects of international relevance. It provides a forum for scientific, ethical and political discussion of new innovative solutions for controlling and eradicating infectious diseases, with particular emphasis on those diseases affecting the poorest regions of the world.
PGH does not encourage submissions of papers describing local epidemiological surveys that do not have general implications for Public Health or for understanding pathogenic mechanism.
PGH is currently particularly interested in original research and reviews that document the development of RNA vaccines, against SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases, whether that is in relation to molecular science and delivery, clinical data and safety, or economics and scalability. For COVID-19 and beyond, we are also interested in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies, their mechanism and production, and their implementation and impact.
We are also currently interested in topics that come under these themes:
– Drug development
– Economic modelling/Cost-benefit analyses
– Emerging viral diseases
– Fungal infections
– New insecticides
– Tick-borne diseases
– Uses of public health data/precision medicine
– Vaccines/Potential vaccination candidates
– Vector control technology
PGH encourages submissions of the following article types:
Review articles:
Review Articles provide a comprehensive summary of research on a topic, and a perspective on the state of the field and where it is heading. PGH welcomes the submission of unsolicited reviews. However, to ensure that a review is within the scope and interest of the journal, the Editor recommends that you contact the editorial office at [email protected] to discuss the topic further.
Examples of recently published review articles:
- Epidemiology of free-living amoebae in the Philippines: a review and update
- Evolving strategies for meningococcal vaccination in Europe: Overview and key determinants for current and future considerations
- Drought-related cholera outbreaks in Africa and the implications for climate change: a narrative review
Original Articles:
The journal welcomes detailed and thoroughly described original research* and should include the following headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion. The research should be in an area within an infectious disease or public health scope, and should be in an area of scientific importance. Research findings should be novel and be contextualised for an interdisciplinary readership.
Examples of recently published original articles:
- High genetic complexity but low relatedness in Plasmodium falciparum infections from Western Savannah Highlands and coastal equatorial Lowlands of Cameroon
- Investigation of MBL2 and NOS3 functional gene variants in suspected COVID-19 PCR (–) patients
- New insights on the Taenia solium tapeworm using molecular tools: age-based human definitive host prevalence and deliberation on parasite life span
Commentaries:
The journal accepts commentaries, which are short articles on research, ideas, trends, innovations, and the implications of technological, political, policy and legal changes on topics of interest to infectious disease and public health communities. Commentaries should critically evaluate the topic from your perspective, giving it wider context. These papers should be between 500-1,000 words and up to 5 references.
Examples of recently published commentaries:
- Malaria and malnutrition together jeopardizes India’s tribal community and disease elimination
- Immunogenicity of the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine as a third dose (booster) following two doses of different primary series regimens in Thailand
- A tentative assessment of the changes in transmissibility and fatality risk associated with Beta SARS-CoV-2 variants in South Africa: an ecological study
Methods:
A method article is a regular length peer-reviewed, research-focused article type that aims to answer a specific question. It also describes an advancement or development of current methodological approaches and research procedures (akin to a research article), following the standard layout for research articles. Find out more about Method articles here.
Data Notes:
Data notes are a short peer-reviewed article type that concisely describe research data stored in a repository. They increase the discoverability and transparency of your research, helping to comply with funder mandates on data sharing and make data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable). Find out more about Data Note articles here.
* Please note that the journal does not accept short communications at the initial submission stage. Short communications are only published in PGH when reviewers suggest that a submitted original article be published but only if it is re-formatted as a short communication. We also recommend that clinical papers are put into the context of their epidemiological or public health value – without this the journal is likely to recommend that it is submitted to a regional journal.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 95K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 4.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 4.4 (2023) 5 year IF
- 6.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.773 (2023) SNIP
- 0.717 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 18 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 78 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 6 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 12% 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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief:
- Professor Andrea Crisanti (Imperial College, London, UK)
Editorial Board:
- Dr Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi (Universiti Malaya, Malayasia)
- Dr Tito Bacarese-Hamilton (Non-executive director, AgPlus Diagnostics, UK)
- Dr Federica Bernardini (Imperial College London, UK)
- Professor emeritus, Bernard Brabin (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK)
- Professor Ilaria Capua (Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida)
- Prof Antonio Cassone (University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy)
- Prof Alessandra Carattoli (Research Director, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy)
- Professor George K Christophides (Imperial College London, UK)
- Dr Thomas Czypionka (Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Austria)
- Professor Jeremy Day (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
- Professor Chia-Kwung Fan (Department of Parasitology, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)
- Professor Marcelo Ferreira (Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Dr LeAnne Fox (Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, USA)
- Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, UK)
- Professor Jules Hoffmann (Chair of Integrative Biology, University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study, France)
- Professor Panagiotis Karanis (University of Nicosia Medical School, Cyprus)
- Professor Axel Kroeger (University of Freiburg, Germany)
- Dr Elena Levashina (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany)
- Dr Raphael Nyaruaba (Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China)
- Dr John Nyirenda (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany, and the University of Livingstonia, Malawi)
- Dr Emily Pascoe (Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Austria)
- Professor Yong Poovorawan (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Dr Rino Rappuoli (Chief Scientist & Head of External Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Italy)
- Dr Francesco Vladimiro Segala (The University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
- Professor Roberta Spaccapelo (University of Perugia, Italy)
- Professor Afzal A Siddiqui (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA)
Abstracting and indexing
Pathogens and Global Health is included in the following services:
AGRICOLA
CAB Abstracts
Chemical Abstracts
Current Contents - Clinical Medicine
Current Contents - Life Sciences
Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS)
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
MEDLINE
PASCAL
PubMed
PubMed Central (PMC)
Research Alert®
Science Citation Index
Scopus
Tropical Diseases Bulletin
Open access
Pathogens and Global Health is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- 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
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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9 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Pathogens and Global Health (2012 - current)
Formerly known as
- Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology (1907 - 2011)
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