Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Public Health Research & Practice
ISSN 2204-2091 · Sax Institute · Australia
Public Health Research & Practice: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 196 days to acceptance (71 articles, last 24 months); 55 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Public Health Research & Practice is published by Sax Institute 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 Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health Policy Implementation Science and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, together about 30.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions and Health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Public Health Research and Practice articles inform public health policy and practice, paying particular attention to innovations, data and perspectives from policy and practice.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Editor-in-chief Don NutbeamPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Global Public Health Policies and EpidemiologyBusiness, Management and Accounting12.4%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions11.8%
- Obesity, Physical Activity, DietMedicine6%
- Smoking Behavior and CessationMedicine5.3%
- Public Health Policies and EducationHealth Professions5%
- Indigenous Health, Education, and RightsSocial Sciences4.9%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions4.9%
- Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningMedicine4.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
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)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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.26LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.55LetPub ·
- h-index
- 40OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 196OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.14OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.28%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 602 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24 | 24 | 6 |
| 2025 | 55 | 55 | 93 |
| 2024 | 35 | 35 | 145 |
| 2023 | 51 | 51 | 309 |
| 2022 | 55 | 55 | 1,248 |
| 2021 | 54 | 54 | 692 |
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
196 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 136 days – 268 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 23 days (2 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 152 days
- Sample
- 71 articles with submission and acceptance dates (91 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 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 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 | AUD 1,900 | Yes | CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Sax Institute
- Country or region
- Australia
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2204-2091
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 36, Issue 2 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Public Health Research & Practice
What CAS zone is Public Health Research & Practice in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Public Health Research & Practice is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 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.
How long does peer review take at Public Health Research & Practice?
Based on the dates recorded on 71 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 196 days (interquartile range 136–268 days); authors report an average review time of about 20 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 Public Health Research & Practice?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Public Health Research & Practice is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Public Health Research & Practice open access, and what is the APC?
Public Health Research & Practice is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
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: .