Global Health-Science and Practice

Global Health-Science and Practice is published by U.S. Agency for International Development 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, Reproductive Health and Contraception and Child Nutrition and Water Access, together about 43.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP) is a no-fee, open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal aimed to improve health practice, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Our goal is to reach those who design, implement, manage, evaluate, and otherwise support health programs. We are especially interested in advancing knowledge on practical program implementation issues, with information on what programs entail and how they are implemented. GHSP is currently indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, POPLINE, EBSCO, SCOPUS,. the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index, and the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC). TOPICS: Issued four times a year, GHSP will include articles on all global health topics, covering diverse programming models and a wide range of cross-cutting issues that impact and support health systems. Examples include but are not limited to: Health: Addiction and harm reduction, Child Health, Communicable and Emerging Diseases, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Environmental Health, Family Planning/Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Maternal Health, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Non-Communicable Diseases/Injuries, Nutrition, Tuberculosis, Water and Sanitation. Cross-Cutting Issues: Epidemiology, Gender, Health Communication/Healthy Behavior, Health Policy and Advocacy, Health Systems, Human Resources/Training, Knowledge Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Management and Governance, mHealth/eHealth/digital health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Scale Up, Youth.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Health Policy

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.73LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

4.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.95LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.14LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

67OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

618OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.69OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

98.15%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

23LetPub · 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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 22 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 22 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

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.

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Publisher

U.S. Agency for International Development

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

ISSN

2169-575X

Official links

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