Ethiopian Journal of Health Development

Ethiopian Journal of Health Development is published by Ethiopian Public Health Association and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Maternal and Child Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, together about 40.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development is a multi and interdisciplinary platform that provides space for public health experts in academics, policy and programs to share empirical evidence to contribute to health development agenda. We publish original research articles, reviews, brief communications and commentaries on public health issues, to inform current research, policy and practice in all areas of common interest to the scholars in the field of public health, social sciences and humanities, health practitioners and policy makers. The journal publishes material relevant to any aspect of public health from a wide range of fields: epidemiology, environmental health, health economics, reproductive health, behavioral sciences, nutrition, psychiatry, social pharmacy, medical anthropology, medical sociology, clinical psychology and wide arrays of social sciences and humanities. The journal publishes the following types of contribution: 1) Peer-reviewed original research articles and critical or analytical reviews in any area of social public health. These papers may be up to 3,500 words excluding abstract, tables, and references. Papers below this limit are preferred. 2) Peer-reviewed short reports of research findings on topical issues or published articles of between 2000 and 4000 words. 3) Brief communications, and commentaries debating on particular areas of focus, and published alongside, selected articles. 4) Special Issues bringing together collections of papers on a particular theme, and usually guest edited. 5) Editorial that flags critical issues of public health debate for policy, program and scientific consumption or further debate

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIESSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

0.54LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.23LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

16LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

60OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

442OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

12LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Ethiopian Public Health Association

Country or region

ETHIOPIA

Language

English

Frequency

Tri-annual

Founded

1984

ISSN

1021-6790

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex