Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Population Health Metrics
ISSN 1478-7954 · BMC · United Kingdom
Population Health Metrics: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.3; fully open access; APC about USD 2,890; median 198 days to acceptance (97 articles, last 24 months); 83 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Population Health Metrics is published by BMC and is in Zone 2 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, Health disparities and outcomes and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, together about 34.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Population Health Metrics addresses issues relating to concepts, methods, ethics applications, and results in the measurement of the health of populations. This includes areas of health state measurement and valuation, summary measures of levels of population health, and inequality in population health, descriptive epidemiology at the population level, burden of disease and injury analysis, disease, and risk factor modeling for populations and comparative assessment of risks to health at population level. The journal provides a platform for population health researchers in all these areas to share their findings with the global research community.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Editor-in-chief Timothy AdairPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 6 in mainland China (about 12%); most named United States 12, Mainland China 6, United Kingdom 4, Italy 4, India 3 (50 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine12.5%
- Health disparities and outcomesSocial Sciences11.7%
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk ManagementSocial Sciences10.3%
- Autopsy Techniques and OutcomesMedicine6.6%
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.7%
- Chronic Disease Management StrategiesMedicine5.3%
- Global Health Care IssuesHealth Professions5.1%
- Maternal and Neonatal HealthcareHealth Professions4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | 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 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIEMEDLINEEmbaseCASCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
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
- 3.3LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.23LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.49LetPub ·
- h-index
- 87OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 446OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.78OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 78LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 795,900Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 746 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 66 | 66 | 12 |
| 2025 | 83 | 83 | 277 |
| 2024 | 40 | 40 | 237 |
| 2023 | 21 | 21 | 305 |
| 2022 | 22 | 22 | 370 |
| 2021 | 47 | 47 | 1,040 |
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
198 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 125 days – 404 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (97 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 221 days
- Sample
- 97 articles with submission and acceptance dates (162 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 29 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 8 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 29 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Open 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 | EUR 2,490 / USD 2,890 / GBP 2,190 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,890 / EUR 2,490 / GBP 2,190 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 2,090 / USD 2,790 / EUR 2,390 | Yes | — |
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)
Open calls for papers3, by deadline
Publisher websiteExcerpts 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
- BMC
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1478-7954
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Population Health Metrics
What CAS zone is Population Health Metrics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Population Health Metrics is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. 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 Population Health Metrics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.3; CiteScore 3.1, h-index 87.
How long does peer review take at Population Health Metrics?
Based on the dates recorded on 97 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 198 days (interquartile range 125–404 days); authors report an average review time of about 29 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Population Health Metrics based?
Of the 50 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 6 (about 12%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (12), Mainland China (6) and United Kingdom (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Population Health Metrics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Population Health Metrics is indexed in SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists SCIE, MEDLINE, Embase, CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Population Health Metrics open access, and what is the APC?
Population Health Metrics is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,890.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .