Journal profile · Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
ETHNICITY & HEALTH
ISSN 1355-7858 · eISSN 1465-3419 · Routledge · ENGLAND · Quarterly · Founded 1996
ETHNICITY & HEALTH: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.17; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 191 days to acceptance (94 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 43 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ETHNICITY & HEALTH is published by Routledge and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Migration, Health and Trauma, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research and Health disparities and outcomes, together about 35.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Open Access option available for this journal - Taylor & Francis Open Select Ethnicity & Health is a subscription-based, peer-reviewed, international journal designed to meet the world-wide interest in the health of ethnic groups. It embraces original papers from the full range of disciplines concerned with investigating the relationship between ’ethnicity’ and ’health’ (including medicine and nursing, public health, epidemiology, social sciences, population sciences, and statistics). The journal also covers issues of culture, religion, gender, class, migration, lifestyle and racism, in so far as they relate to health and its anthropological and social aspects. The journal aims to: Deal with practice and policy in a thoughtful and critical way. Present empirical material in a way that considers theoretical issues in addition to implications for policy and practice, given the contested nature of both ’ethnicity’ and ’health’. Address the methodological problems that face both qualitative and quantitative studies in multi-cultural societies. Readership: Ethnicity & Health is directed at the international community. Its audience includes: academics, health and social care practitioners, those who train practitioners, and those in the policy and voluntary sectors. Peer Review Integrity: The journal welcomes for consideration the following paper types, and all articles recived by the Journal will be subject to single-anonymous peer review. Research Articles Brief Reports Review Articles All research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two independent referees. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for Ethnicity & Health, please contact Tamara Baker, Editor-in-Chief. Disclaimer
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Editor-in-chief Tamara A. BakerPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology15%
- Racial and Ethnic Identity ResearchSocial Sciences13.6%
- Health disparities and outcomesSocial Sciences6.5%
- Cultural Competency in Health CareSocial Sciences6.3%
- Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology5.9%
- Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningMedicine5.3%
- Diabetes Management and EducationMedicine4.4%
- Obesity, Physical Activity, DietMedicine4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ethnic Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ethnic Studies | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ethnic Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEEmbasePsycINFOCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Index Medicus, OCLC, ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts), Abstracts on Health and Communicatable Disease, CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, CAB Health, Educational Research Online Abstracts, Environmental Science and Pollution Management, Geobase, Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography, Global Health, Health and Safety Science Abstracts Online, Multicultural Education Abstracts, Organic Research Database, Physical Education Index, ProtoZoological Abstracts, Review of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Risk Abstracts, SciSearch, Social Services Abstracts, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, Sociological Abstracts, World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- Impact factor
- 2.17LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 1Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.18LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.18Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 49LetPub ·
- h-index
- 89OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 912OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.08OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 10.74%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 43LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 161,000Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 161,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,378 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 48 | 18 | 4 |
| 2025 | 43 | 22 | 38 |
| 2024 | 63 | 35 | 278 |
| 2023 | 46 | 16 | 306 |
| 2022 | 41 | 20 | 448 |
| 2021 | 49 | 27 | 939 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
191 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 139 days – 275 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 12 days (94 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 204 days
- Sample
- 94 articles with submission and acceptance dates (109 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 8%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 8%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 141 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review 2025
- 141 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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 accepted3
- brief reportsBrief ReportsLength not stated
- research articlesResearch ArticlesLength not stated
- review articlesReview ArticlesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access Model summary
Ethnicity & Health is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis 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 read…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single-anonymous peer review Model summary
all articles recived by the Journal will be subject to single-anonymous peer review
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
- Routledge
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1996
- ISSN
- 1355-7858
- Electronic ISSN
- 1465-3419
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 31, Issue 6 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ETHNICITY & HEALTH
What CAS zone is ETHNICITY & HEALTH in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, ETHNICITY & HEALTH is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health / Ethnic Studies. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of ETHNICITY & HEALTH?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.17; CiteScore 6.2, h-index 89.
How long does peer review take at ETHNICITY & HEALTH?
Based on the dates recorded on 94 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 191 days (interquartile range 139–275 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 8% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is ETHNICITY & HEALTH in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Medicine.
Which databases index ETHNICITY & HEALTH?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ETHNICITY & HEALTH is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is ETHNICITY & HEALTH open access, and what is the APC?
ETHNICITY & HEALTH is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .