Why publish with Health Affairs Scholar?
Health Affairs Scholar is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal of emerging and global health policy. Published under the aegis of Health Affairs and Project HOPE, the journal builds on Health Affairs’ wide, multidisciplinary community of scholars and policy leaders to share new research and evidence with swift online publication. In addition to covering core health policy topics of health care costs, access, quality and equity, Health Affairs Scholar publishes innovative translational research in health care technology, population health, and global health. And Health Affairs Scholar is indexed in the Web of Science, as well as PubMed Central and Google Scholar, to increase discoverability of your research.
Read on to learn more about why Health Affairs Scholar is the perfect home for your research.
Supporting the global community
Health Affairs Scholar is committed to strengthening equity and inclusion in scholarly publishing for authors and readers. The multidisciplinary journal is dedicated to supporting health care scholars, practitioners, and policy makers through providing access to the latest research on global health policy and emerging health services. Diverse voices and perspectives in health research are welcome.
Internationally recognized editorial team
Led by Editor-in-Chief Kathryn A. Phillips, Health Affairs Scholar is supported by an editorial team of leading scholars across a broad range of disciplines and institutions from around the world. The journal seeks to disseminate high-quality research by leveraging the expertise and global reach of the team, while fostering respectful engagement and amplification of internal expertise and local perspectives.
Learn more about the team behind the journal.
Quality peer review
The diverse expertise of the Health Affairs Scholar editors and editorial board reflect the topic areas the journal is particularly focused on, ensuring a robust and constructive peer review process.
Fully open access
As a fully open access journal, Health Affairs Scholar offers many benefits to authors and readers. In particular:
- Content is freely accessible to a worldwide audience.
- Open access can result in greater usage and article citations.
- Barrier-free access can help policy makers, the media, practitioners, and others further extend and increase the impact of the research.
- The open access license ensures that your work is always compliant with funder mandates.
- Authors with funding mandates can be fully compliant with their open access requirements.
Health Affairs Scholar offers both CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-NC-ND licenses.
Authors interested in publishing in Health Affairs Scholar may be able to publish their paper Open Access using funds available through their institution’s agreement with OUP.
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Broad scope
Health Affairs Scholar publishes a range of content and article types so you can choose the format most appropriate for communicating your research including:
- Research Article
- Review Article
- Policy Inquiry
- Brief Report
- Commentary
The journal covers emerging health policy research areas as well as research from intersecting fields of scholarship such as the environment, health and social services, housing, transportation, income, and justice.
Speed of publication
Accepted manuscripts are published online with a DOI within 1 week of authors signing their license to publish, meaning your research will be seen and cited as soon as possible. The rapid publication cycle accelerates dissemination of timely evidence for policy making.
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Read our instructions to authors to learn more about preparing and submitting your manuscript with us or submit now via our submission site.
OUP also offers authoring resources to answer all of your publication questions before, during, and after publication, including how to best promote your work once published.
