Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Reproductive Health
ISSN 1742-4755 · BioMed Central · ENGLAND · Founded 2004
Reproductive Health: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 3.37; fully open access; APC about USD 3,390; median 202 days to acceptance (112 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 300 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Reproductive Health is published by BioMed Central and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Maternal and Child Health, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Health and Contraception, together about 47.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Reproductive Health publishes content on all aspects of human reproduction, including adolescent health, female fertility, contraception, and maternal health and all articles are open access. Reproductive Health has a particular interest on the impact changes in reproductive health have globally, and therefore encourages submissions from researchers based in low- and middle-income countries.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Editor-in-chief Bright AhinkorahPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine24.5%
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthHealth Professions11.9%
- Reproductive Health and ContraceptionMedicine11%
- Maternal and Perinatal Health InterventionsMedicine7.7%
- Reproductive Health and TechnologiesMedicine4.5%
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMedicine4%
- HIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsMedicine3.2%
- Maternal and fetal healthcareMedicine3.2%
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 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
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: yesReview 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 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEEmbaseCASCAB 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
- 3.37LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.7LetPub ·
- h-index
- 41LetPub ·
- h-index
- 131OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,800OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.61OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 283LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 3,500,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,834 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 213 | 213 | 45 |
| 2025 | 300 | 300 | 1,016 |
| 2024 | 207 | 207 | 1,540 |
| 2023 | 186 | 186 | 2,361 |
| 2022 | 239 | 239 | 5,116 |
| 2021 | 253 | 253 | 9,165 |
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
202 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 139 days – 390 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (112 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 233 days
- Sample
- 112 articles with submission and acceptance dates (570 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)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 17 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 2,990 / USD 3,390 / GBP 2,590 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 3,290 / EUR 2,890 / GBP 2,490 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 2,290 / USD 3,090 / EUR 2,690 | 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 papers1, 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
- BioMed Central
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2004
- ISSN
- 1742-4755
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- 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 Reproductive Health
What CAS zone is Reproductive Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Reproductive Health is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; it is a Top journal. 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 Reproductive Health?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.37; CiteScore 5.6, h-index 131.
How long does peer review take at Reproductive Health?
Based on the dates recorded on 112 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 202 days (interquartile range 139–390 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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 Reproductive Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Reproductive Health is indexed in SCIE, SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, Embase, CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Reproductive Health open access, and what is the APC?
Reproductive Health is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,390.
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: .