Journal profile · Social Sciences-Health (social science)
Health Equity
ISSN 2473-1242 · Mary Ann Liebert · United States
Health Equity: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.3 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 950; review about 24 weeks (community reports); 83 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Health Equity is published by Mary Ann Liebert 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, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations and Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, together about 27.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
This leading peer-reviewed open-access journal meets the urgent need for authoritative information about health disparities and health equity among underserved and vulnerable populations with the goal of providing optimal outcomes and ultimately health equity for all. With coverage ranging from translational research to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of disease and illness, the journal serves as a primary resource for organizations and individuals who serve these populations at the community, state, regional, tribal, and national levels. The journal is published in collaboration with the Institute for Professional Education.The article processing charge (APC) is $2400.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Health (social science)
Editor-in-chief Monica R MclemorePublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 39 (39 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology9.2%
- Food Security and Health in Diverse PopulationsHealth Professions9.2%
- Racial and Ethnic Identity ResearchSocial Sciences8.7%
- Cultural Competency in Health CareSocial Sciences5.4%
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.3%
- Global Health Workforce IssuesHealth Professions5.1%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions4.9%
- Health disparities and outcomesSocial Sciences4.6%
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 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.98LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.93LetPub ·
- h-index
- 47OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 301OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.65OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 75LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 871 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 75 | 75 | 7 |
| 2025 | 83 | 83 | 82 |
| 2024 | 120 | 120 | 371 |
| 2023 | 111 | 111 | 758 |
| 2022 | 112 | 112 | 1,472 |
| 2021 | 110 | 110 | 1,857 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 24 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 24 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 950 | No | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 950 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 950 | No | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,400 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 3,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted13
- book reviewOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words (Please use the same headings at the body of the manuscript) Text must have an …Length not stated
- book reviewsBook Reviews should offer new insights for practitioners (scholars, clinicians, community organizers, etc) seeking to advance health equity.Length not stated
- meta-analysisOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words (Please use the same headings at the body of the manuscript) Text must have an …Length not stated
- narrative reviewOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words (Please use the same headings at the body of the manuscript) Text must have an …Length not stated
- opinionOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words (Please use the same headings at the body of the manuscript) Text must have an …Length not stated
- original articleOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words (Please use the same headings at the body of the manuscript) Text must have an …Length not stated
- original articlesOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 wordsLength not stated
- perspectives articlesShort Report (structured) and Perspectives Articles (unstructured) no more than 100 wordsLength not stated
- reviewOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words (Please use the same headings at the body of the manuscript) Text must have an …Length not stated
- review articleOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words (Please use the same headings at the body of the manuscript) Text must have an …Length not stated
- review articlesReview Articles 4,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400 wordsLength not stated
- short reportShort Report (structured) and Perspectives Articles (unstructured) no more than 100 wordsLength not stated
- systematic reviewOriginal Articles 3,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words (Please use the same headings at the body of the manuscript) Text must have an …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Health Equity is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the funder, ins…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint policy Model summary
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- Mary Ann Liebert
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2473-1242
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Health Equity
What CAS zone is Health Equity in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Health Equity is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Health Equity?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.3; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.1, h-index 47.
How long does peer review take at Health Equity?
Authors report an average review time of about 24 weeks. 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 are the manuscript requirements of Health Equity?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 3,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Health Equity based?
Of the 39 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (39). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Health Equity?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Health Equity is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Health Equity open access, and what is the APC?
Health Equity is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 950.
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: .