Journal profile · Nursing-Community and Home Care
Public health reviews
ISSN 0301-0422 · eISSN 2107-6952 · Technosdar Ltd · Switzerland
Public health reviews: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 5.2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,389; median 186 days to acceptance (103 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 46% (journal website); 61 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: Public Health Reviews is now archived and no longer receiving submissions with this publisher. All articles published in the journal during its time with Springer will remain fully searchable through our websites. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Public health reviews is published by Technosdar Ltd 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 Public Health Policies and Education, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology and Climate Change and Health Impacts, together about 30% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Public Health Reviews (PHR) is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal. It is dedicated to foster knowledge synthesis and translation in public health, in order to inform public health science, practice, policy and education, and improve public health. PHR publishes high quality Reviews of all formats, and Policy Briefs. Special issues address compelling challenges and future directions in all areas of public health. The scope of the journal ranges from the local to the global scale. The journal editorial policy adheres to the United Nations universal values, including the Human Rights-Based Approach conceptual framework.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Nursing-Community and Home Care
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Switzerland 5, Portugal 3, Netherlands 2, United Kingdom 1, France 1 (16 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Public Health Policies and EducationHealth Professions14.1%
- Global Public Health Policies and EpidemiologyBusiness, Management and Accounting9.3%
- Climate Change and Health ImpactsEnvironmental Science6.6%
- Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology5.6%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine5.1%
- Health disparities and outcomesSocial Sciences5%
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.9%
- Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology3.4%
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: yes
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
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePMCEmbasePublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, Dimensions, CNKI, CLOCKSS, Crossref, 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 (publisher)
- 5.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2024
- 7.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.24LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.35LetPub ·
- h-index
- 73OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 288OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.11OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 48LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 269,884Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 572 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 71 | 71 | 20 |
| 2025 | 61 | 61 | 266 |
| 2024 | 54 | 54 | 479 |
| 2023 | 26 | 26 | 368 |
| 2022 | 50 | 50 | 834 |
| 2021 | 24 | 24 | 732 |
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
186 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 112 days – 295 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (103 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 226 days
- Sample
- 103 articles with submission and acceptance dates (133 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 5 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 46%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 25 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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 accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | CHF 1,980 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 1,980 | 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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access
- License & copyright Copyright statement
Under the Conditions for Website Use and the General Conditions for Authors, authors of articles published in PHR retain copyright on their articles, except for any third-party images which are subject to copyright of their respective owners. Authors are therefore free to disseminate and re-publish their articles, subject to any requirements of third-party copyright owners and subject to the origi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Statement
The journal publishes all content open access. Article Processing Charges apply.Open Access funder and institutional mandates: The journal is fully compliant with open access mandates, by publishing its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY). Funder mandates such as those by the Wellcome Trust (UK), National Institutes of Health (USA) and the Australian Research Council (A…
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
- Technosdar Ltd
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0301-0422
- Electronic ISSN
- 2107-6952
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Public health reviews
What CAS zone is Public health reviews in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Public health reviews 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 Public health reviews?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 5.2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 6, h-index 73.
How long does peer review take at Public health reviews?
Based on the dates recorded on 103 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 186 days (interquartile range 112–295 days); authors report an average review time of about 5 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 46% (2025). 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 Public health reviews based?
Of the 16 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Switzerland (5), Portugal (3) and Netherlands (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Public health reviews?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Public health reviews is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PMC and Embase; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Public health reviews open access, and what is the APC?
Public health reviews is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,389.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .