Journal profile

Open Health

ISSN 2544-9826 · De Gruyter · Poland

Open Health: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 25 weeks (community reports); 29 articles in 2025; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.

The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: The journal is closed for submissions. Source ↗Publisher website ·

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartile—No CiteScore rank
Review timeabout 25 weeksCommunity average
APCNo APCDiamond open access (no APC)
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year292025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Open Health is published by De Gruyter. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research and Public Health Policies and Education, together about 21% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal Open Health was an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that is a forum for presenting novel research, systematic reviews, and discussions on the promotion of health and disease prevention. The journal provided academically thoughtful and up-to-date reports within the research community on topics including: Physical and mental healthPublic, environmental, and occupational healthNutrition and dieteticsPhysical activityLifestyle changeHealth policy and systemsGlobal healthHealth economicsDigital healthEpidemiologyGeo-political influences on health The journal is closed for submissions. The journal was published in Open Access model.All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commonslicense. Your Benefits publication in Open Health is FREE OF CHARGE fast and constructive peer review no length restrictions open-access model – unrestricted access for all readers continuous publication model – quick publication after acceptance free language editing for authors from non-English speaking countries worldwide promotion of each article secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico comprehensive abstracting and indexing

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Editor-in-chief Jimmy EfirdPublisher website

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Vaccine Coverage and HesitancySocial Sciences8%
  2. SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchMedicine7%
  3. Public Health Policies and EducationHealth Professions6%
  4. COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology5%
  5. Ovarian function and disordersMedicine5%
  6. COVID-19 epidemiological studiesMathematics5%
  7. Child Nutrition and Water AccessNursing5%
  8. Nutrition, Health and Food BehaviorNursing5%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

Database indexing

DOAJLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

EBSCO, ProQuest, CNKI, Baidu, OCLC, Baidu Scholar, Cabells Journalytics, CABI (over 50 subsections), CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), CNPIEC - cnpLINKer, Dimensions, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar, J-Gate, Naver Academic, Naviga (Softweco), Primo Central (ExLibris), ReadCube, Scilit, Semantic Scholar, Summon (ProQuest), TDNet, WanFang Data, WorldCat (OCLC), X-MOL, Yewno DiscoverPublisher website

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

h-index
9OpenAlex ·
i10-index
9OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
2.12OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 115 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
20260084
20252929103
2024373785
2023202037
2022202056
2021448

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 25 weeksLetPub ·
Submission to publication (journal-reported)
about 25 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

Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ

Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJNo APCNoCC BY
OpenAlexEUR 0——
LetPubNo APCNo—

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)

Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright
License & copyright

Authors retain copyright; copyrights governed by the Creative Commons license. Model summary

All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commonslicense.

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
De Gruyter
Country or region
Poland
Language
English
ISSN
2544-9826
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Open Health

How long does peer review take at Open Health?

Authors report an average review time of about 25 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.

Which databases index Open Health?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Open Health is indexed in DOAJ.

Is Open Health open access, and what is the APC?

Open Health 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, 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: .