Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Health Psychology Report
ISSN 2353-4184 · eISSN 2353-5571 · Termedia Publishing House · Poland
Health Psychology Report: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.6 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 168 days to acceptance (36 articles, last 24 months); 28 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Health Psychology Report is published by Termedia Publishing House and is in Zone 4 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are COVID-19 and Mental Health, Eating Disorders and Behaviors and Resilience and Mental Health, together about 21.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The articles in this journal are published open access (OA) Health Psychology Report (HPR) publishes high quality original articles and reviews of recognized scientists that deal with theories and research from the perspective of social and medicine medical science. HPR promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to health and illness. HPR opens the possibilities for young, capable scientists. The journal would like to give them a chance to have a publication following matter-of-fact, professional review by outstanding, famous scientists. Thanks to that they will have an opportunity to present their study results and/or receive useful advice about the mistakes they have made so far. In particular we are interested in such topics as psychological aspects of illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors in the etiology of illnesses; health attitudes and behavior, including prevention and promotion; the individual-health care system interface, particularly communication, and psychologically- based interventions; child and adolescent health; couple and family relationships in health; lifespan approaches to health, including those related to older adults; quality of life and well being; and research methodology, measurement, and statistics in health psychology. However, we are open to innovative research and new conceptual reviews in the field of health psychology. Copyright: © Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. The rights to the article are usually transferred by the authors to the owner of the journal, who makes it available under the Creative Commons license. However, if the author does not want to transfer the copyright to the publisher, he/she may contact the editorial office and set separate rules - under which the editorial office may publish an article in the journal. For the detailed information, please contact with editorial office. The journal is co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science for the following tasks: Dissemination of scientific articles and infor
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Editor-in-chief Mariola BidzanPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology7.4%
- Eating Disorders and BehaviorsPsychology7.2%
- Resilience and Mental HealthPsychology7.2%
- Psychological Well-being and Life SatisfactionPsychology6%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology5%
- Health, psychology, and well-beingHealth Professions5%
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ResearchPsychology4.8%
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-beingPsychology4.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Social | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Social | Zone 4 |
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)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.67Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.47LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.62LetPub ·
- h-index
- 26OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 123OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.35OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.96%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 32LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 446 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 32 | 2 |
| 2025 | 28 | 28 | 24 |
| 2024 | 36 | 36 | 104 |
| 2023 | 32 | 32 | 127 |
| 2022 | 34 | 34 | 205 |
| 2021 | 29 | 29 | 348 |
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 PubMed · to
168 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 115 days – 259 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 72 days (36 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 233 days
- Sample
- 36 articles with submission and acceptance dates (57 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)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 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-NC-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| 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)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 200–250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 7,500 words
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted2, with length limits
- case reportcontribution to the science of health. Case reports should not exceed 2300 words, that is 6 A4 pages, excluding the unstructured abstract (1main text ≤ 2,300 words
- original articlebe in their final form when submitted. Original articles should be about 7500 words, that is 20 typewritten A4 pages. Each research article shomain text ≤ 7,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- License & copyright
Electronic submission required Model summary
Articles for publication in Health Psychology Report are accepted only via the electronic Editorial System.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open access with no publication fees Model summary
Open access journal without publication fees
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review Model summary
Each paper is evaluated in the double-blind review process, in which authors do not know the identity of their reviewers, nor do the reviewers know the identities of the authors.
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
- Termedia Publishing House
- Country or region
- Poland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2353-4184
- Electronic ISSN
- 2353-5571
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 14 (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 Health Psychology Report
What CAS zone is Health Psychology Report in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Health Psychology Report is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology, Social. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Health Psychology Report?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.6; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.8, h-index 26.
How long does peer review take at Health Psychology Report?
Based on the dates recorded on 36 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 168 days (interquartile range 115–259 days); authors report an average review time of about 8 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 Psychology Report?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 200–250 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 7,500 words; Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not 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.
Which databases index Health Psychology Report?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Health Psychology Report is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Health Psychology Report open access, and what is the APC?
Health Psychology Report 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, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .