Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health
ISSN 2282-2305 · eISSN 2282-0930 · Prex
Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; 181 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health is published by Prex. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Statistical Methods in Epidemiology, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials, together about 27.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Statistics and Probability. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Aims and Scope Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Public Health (EBPH) is a multidisciplinary journal that has two broad aims: To provide the international public health community with evidence on public health interventions, health care management, health policy, and health economics. To advance public health methods, including biostatistics and epidemiology. EBPH welcomes submissions on all public health issues (including topics like eHealth, big data, personalized prevention, epidemiology and risk factors of chronic and infectious diseases); on basic and applied research in epidemiology; and in biostatistics methodology. Primary studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses are all welcome, as are research protocols for observational and experimental studies. EBPH aims to be a cross-discipline, international forum for scientific integration and evidence-based policymaking, combining the methodological aspects of epidemiology, biostatistics, and public health research with their practical applications. EBPH is a Diamond Open Access journal published by Milano University Press. Section Topics Health Services Research Secondary Data /Routine Data Analysis Appropriateness of health care interventions Evidence-based Medicine Health Technology Assessment Prioritization in Health Care Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in health care Health Care Management Care Management Quality improvement and management Communication in Health Care Decision-making in Health Care Disease Management Guidelines, Guidance, Clinical/Care Pathways Health Care Delivery Telemedicine Education in health care Observational designs and research Comparative Effectiveness Research Pharmacoepidemiology Outcome research/quality assessment. Health Policy Health Regulations Health Systems Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Management Health Care Ethics Health Information Health Economics Costs and Cost Analysis Fees and Charges and Reimbursement Financial Management of Health Care Services Health Care Financing Health Economic Evaluation Health Care Market Value based Assessment Public health intervention trials Evidence-based Public Health Randomised, controlled trials of public health interventions (education, primary prevention, screening, among others) Ethics in Public Health Innovative designs and methods Designs and methods for omics research Methodological issues for big data analysis Causal statistical modelling Modern methods and designs for observational and experimental research T
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Statistical Methods in EpidemiologyMathematics13.8%
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian InferenceMathematics7.1%
- Statistical Methods in Clinical TrialsMathematics6.9%
- Substance Abuse Treatment and OutcomesMedicine6.1%
- Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningMedicine5.1%
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5%
- Obesity, Physical Activity, DietMedicine4.5%
- Artificial Intelligence in HealthcareHealth Professions4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and Home Care | Q3 | 26/37 | 29th |
| Health Policy | Q3 | 196/265 | 26th |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | Q4 | 439/562 | 21st |
| Epidemiology | Q4 | 85/108 | 21st |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.14LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.34LetPub ·
- h-index
- 23OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 76OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.13OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 756 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 122 | 122 | 171 |
| 2025 | 181 | 181 | 257 |
| 2024 | 25 | 25 | 250 |
| 2023 | 24 | 24 | 280 |
| 2022 | 404 | 404 | 335 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 383 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-SA | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted7
- book reviewsBook reviews – Book reviews should be about 450 words.Length not stated
- commentariesCommentaries – Commentaries are opinion pieces or reflections on papers previously or currently published in the Italian Journal of Public Health, or on issues …Length not stated
- editorialsEditorials – The EBPH editorials are written in house by the journal's Editorial Team. Editorials should be about 900 words.Length not stated
- lettersLetters – Letters to the editor should be about 450 words and do not need an abstract.Length not stated
- narrative reviewsNarrative reviews – Narrative reviews cannot be submitted unless invited by the Editor(s).Length not stated
- papersPapers – Papers report the results of original quantitative or qualitative public health research. Full length papers should only in exceptional cases exceed 30…Length not stated
- short reportsShort reports should not exceed 1200 words and under no circumstances be more than 1500 words. A maximum of two tables or illustrations is allowed. Abstracts of…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
- Authorship Authorship
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the coauthors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Corresponding authors will be requested to sign an authorship statement. Increasingly, multicentre trials are attributed to a corporate author. Information i…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Competing interest (CI) statement
It is the policy of the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health and its various boards and committees to ensure that members in all of their activities avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest resulting from their activities as members of committees or boards of the association. In particular, no persons should obtain or appear to obtain special advantages for t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Replication data and supplementary materials are deposited in UNIMI Dataverse under CC BY-SA 4.0 with assigned DOI. Model summary
Authors may upload Replication Data and Supplementary Materials in addition to their paper. Please note that for technical reasons related to journal management, these material(s) will be deposited in UNIMI Dataverse, a FAIR-compliant and CoreTrustSeal-certified repository, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, with an assigned DOI and direct access via the journal's website.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Ethics committee approval and informed consent required for studies on patients or volunteers. Model summary
Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in your paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Authors responsible for copyright compliance and obtaining permissions for previously published material. Model summary
• The authors warrant that the manuscript (or its essential substance) has not been published in any language or format and has not been submitted elsewhere for print or electronic publication consideration • The authors warrant that the manuscript does not contain any material the publication of which would violate any copyright or other personal or proprietary right of any person or entity • The…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Reviewer selection for each article submitted is up to the editors and takes into account reviewers' experience, competence and previous experience in reviewing papers. Every proposal submitted for publication is read at least by the editors, for an initial review. If the paper agrees with editorial policies and with a minimum quality level, is sent to external reviewers for evaluation. ebph uses …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism policy: EBPH does not accept manuscripts with plagiarized material; plagiarism defined as use of previously authored works of others or self without proper attribution. Model summary
EBPH do not accept manuscripts with plagiarized material. For the purposes of this policy, plagiarism is defined as the use of previously authored works - including text, data, and images - of others or self without proper attribution.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
This summary is for the publisher's default policies and changes or exceptions can often be negotiated by authors.All information is correct to the best of our knowledge but should not be relied upon for legal advice. Publisher: Milano University Press Author's Pre‑print: author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) Author's Post‑print: author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refere…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Prex
- ISSN
- 2282-2305
- Electronic ISSN
- 2282-0930
- Society / sponsor
- Italian Society of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 21, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health
Which databases index Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health open access, and what is the APC?
Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .