About

Acceptance Rate:
16%
Time to first decision with review:
47 days*
Impact Factor (JCR):
7.1
Citescore:
1.66
2023 total content views:
1.23 million
2023 total Altmetric mentions:
133,759

Aims and scope

BMJ Global Health is an open access, online journal from BMJ dedicated to publishing high-quality peer-reviewed content relevant to those involved in global health, including policy makers, funders, researchers, clinicians and frontline healthcare workers. To find out more about the journal’s vision, please read the introductory editorial from the journal’s founding Editor-in-Chief, Dr Seye Abimbola. The journal covers all aspects of global health, and the editor welcomes opinionated discussions to stimulate discussion and debate.
BMJ Global Health adheres to BMJ’s rigorous standards of peer-review and papers are considered on the basis of ethical and methodological soundness rather than their novelty, significance, or relevance to any particular group. The journal operates a fast submission process with continuous publication online to ensure that timely, up-to-date research is available worldwide to those who need it. BMJ Global Health is a companion journal to BMJ Public Health.

Ownership

BMJ Global Health is owned by BMJ.

Editorial board

For information about the BMJ Global Health editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.

Journal information

Publication Model
Open access
Frequency
Continuous online publication
Launch date
2016
Digital Archives
Indexed by
Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®); Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition and Social Sciences Edition; Social Sciences Citation Index®; Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences; MEDLINE; PubMed Central; Scopus; Embase (Excerpta Medica); DOAJ; Google Scholar
Peer review model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Online ISSN
2059-7908

Journal Statistics 2024

Acceptance rate: 16%
Speed Days to first decision with review: 47 days (median) Days to first decision without review: 5 days (median) Days from acceptance to publication: 31 days (median)
Impact Impact Factor category: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Impact Factor (JCR): 7.1 Impact Factor rank (JCR): 20/403 5 Year Impact Factor: 7.1 Journal Citation Indicator: 1.66 Eigenfactor: 0.03987 Citescore: 11.4 Citescore rank: 11/310 Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 2.449
Reach 2023 total content views: 1.23 million 2023 total Altmetric mentions: 133,759
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Affiliations

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Dryad is an international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Dryad enables scientists to validate published findings, explore new analysis methodologies, repurpose data for research questions unanticipated by the original authors, and perform synthetic studies. BMJ has been working with Dryad since 2010.
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The BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
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The mission of OASPA is to support and represent the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. The BMJ Publishing Group has been a member since 2009.
Open Access articles in BMJ Global Health are licensed using either Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) or Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license. These licenses let others distribute, remix, tweak and build upon your work.
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BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.