Journal profile · OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Womens Health
ISSN 1745-5057 · eISSN 1745-5065 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
Womens Health: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.3 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,000; review about 15 weeks (community reports); 226 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Womens Health is published by SAGE Publishing 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 Reproductive Health and Contraception, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum and Endometriosis Research and Treatment, together about 19.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Women’s Health (WHE) is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that focuses on all aspects of women's healthcare. WHE welcomes submissions on topics covering the entire lifespan of women, from childhood/adolescence to menopause and beyond. Primary research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews and editorials addressing topics on any manner of scale are welcome, as are submissions from both low- and high-resource countries. Please see Aims and Scope tab for further information.Why publish in WHE?Indexed in MEDLINE, Scopus and Clarivate Analytics' ESCIIncluded in PubMed CentralOpen access dissemination of your article to a global audience of professionals, including decision makersRigorous single-blind peer reviewDistinguished international editorial boardDiversity, Equity and Inclusion StatementWomen’s Health (WHE) promotes inclusive, open science that reflects the disciplinary, human, and geographic diversity of the women’s health community.Diversity as a core value embodies inclusiveness, mutual respect, and multiple perspectives.We welcome editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers and authors from all backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, races, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, mental or physical (dis)abilities, ages, career stages, socioeconomic status or any other individual status.We are committed to continually improving our editorial and review processes whilst playing our part in eradicating bias and inequality in all forms.Open access article processing charge (APC) informationThe article processing charge for this Journal is $3,200 USD. The article processing charge for Plain Language Summary is $5,500 USD. Authors may also choose to pay in GBP*.The APC is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.Submission informationSubmit your manuscript today at https://sage.atyponrex.com/journal/whe.Please see the Submission Guidelines for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.ContactPlease direct any queries to the Managing Editor, Shasha Sharief (shasha.sharief@sagepub.co.uk).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Edward KwabenaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named United States 37, Italy 11, United Kingdom 9, Australia 9, India 6 (126 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Reproductive Health and ContraceptionMedicine6.4%
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMedicine6.4%
- Endometriosis Research and TreatmentMedicine6.3%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine6.2%
- Menopause: Health Impacts and TreatmentsMedicine5.8%
- Maternal and Perinatal Health InterventionsMedicine4.9%
- Menstrual Health and DisordersMedicine4.9%
- Uterine Myomas and TreatmentsMedicine4.6%
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 | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Obstetrics & Gynecology | 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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.02LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.4LetPub ·
- h-index
- 73OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 725OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.61OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.43%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 216LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,155 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 249 | 249 | 32 |
| 2025 | 226 | 226 | 527 |
| 2024 | 186 | 186 | 1,165 |
| 2023 | 135 | 135 | 1,421 |
| 2022 | 157 | 157 | 2,680 |
| 2021 | 81 | 81 | 1,602 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- 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 | USD 2,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 / USD 5,500 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted6
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Women's Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the funder, in…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk reject…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1745-5057
- Electronic ISSN
- 1745-5065
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Womens Health
What CAS zone is Womens Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Womens Health is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Obstetrics & Gynecology. 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 Womens Health?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.3; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.7, h-index 73.
How long does peer review take at Womens Health?
Authors report an average review time of about 15 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 Womens Health based?
Of the 126 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 1%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (37), Italy (11) and United Kingdom (9). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Womens Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Womens Health is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Womens Health open access, and what is the APC?
Womens Health is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,000.
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: .