Journal profile · Multiple
Women & Health
ISSN 0363-0242 · eISSN 1541-0331 · Taylor & Francis
Women & Health: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.1; hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 283 days to acceptance (92 articles, last 24 months); 71 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Women & Health is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum and Global Maternal and Child Health, together about 19% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Widely accepted as the standard reference source for specialists in the field, Women & Health contains information that is eminently useful to researchers, policy planners, and all providers of health care for women. The journal covers findings from studies concerning health and illness and physical and psychological well-being of women, as well as the environmental, lifestyle, and sociocultural factors that are associated with health and disease, which have implications for prevention, early detection and treatment, limitation of disability, and rehabilitation. Features include: original research articles contributed critical, systematic research reviews women's health policy research critical, systematic historical research on women's health book reviews Contributors provide the technical and scientific backdrop that women's health issues require. From time to time, special symposium issues on a single theme are published.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Márcia MendonçaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 2, United States 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthHealth Professions7.5%
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMedicine6.5%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine4.9%
- Reproductive Health and ContraceptionMedicine4.9%
- Menstrual Health and DisordersMedicine4.8%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.6%
- Intimate Partner and Family ViolenceSocial Sciences4.5%
- Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningMedicine4.4%
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 |
| Minor | Womens Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Womens Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Womens Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedEmbasePsycINFOCAB AbstractsCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Abstracts in Anthropology, Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases (CABI), Academic ASAP, Biological Sciences Database (CSA), Biology Digest, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Combined Health Information Database (CHID), Contemporary Women’s Issues, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Dairy Science Abstracts (CABI), EBSCOhost Online Research Databases, Educational Research Abstracts, Elsevier Eflow-D, EMCare, Entrepreneurship Research Engine, Family & Society Studies Worldwide (NISC), Family Index Database, Family Violence & Sexual Assault Bulletin, Feminist Periodicals, GenderWatch, General Science Index, GLOBAL HEALTH (CABI), Health & Psychosocial Instruments Database, Health and Safety Science Abstracts (CSA), Health and Wellness Resource Center, Health Reference Center, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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
- 1.1LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.4LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.4Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.56LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.56Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 96OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,414OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.95OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 5.31%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 54LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 156,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,653 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 45 | 12 | 3 |
| 2025 | 71 | 21 | 115 |
| 2024 | 83 | 20 | 271 |
| 2023 | 87 | 24 | 315 |
| 2022 | 91 | 21 | 614 |
| 2021 | 89 | 17 | 893 |
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
283 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 186 days – 377 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 11 days (92 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 302 days
- Sample
- 92 articles with submission and acceptance dates (138 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".
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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 websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Women & Health is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and readersh…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Rigorous peer review for every open access article Model summary
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0363-0242
- Electronic ISSN
- 1541-0331
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 66, Issue 6-7 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Women & Health
What CAS zone is Women & Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Women & Health is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health / Womens Studies. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Women & Health?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.1; CiteScore 2.2, h-index 96.
How long does peer review take at Women & Health?
Based on the dates recorded on 92 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 283 days (interquartile range 186–377 days). 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 Women & Health based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (2) and United States (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Women & Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Women & Health is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, CAB Abstracts, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Women & Health open access, and what is the APC?
Women & Health is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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: .