Journal profile · Nursing-Maternity and Midwifery
Womens Health Reports
ISSN 2688-4844 · Mary Ann Liebert · United States
Womens Health Reports: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 3,000; review about 18 weeks (community reports); 144 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Womens Health Reports is published by Mary Ann Liebert 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 Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Reproductive Health and Contraception and Diversity and Career in Medicine, together about 24.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
This high-quality open-access journal provides peer-reviewed research on a broad range of topics related to the optimal care for women across the lifespan from adolescence through late adulthood, with an emphasis on clinical papers, translational research, and health promotion and wellness. The journal publishes peer-reviewed original articles, reviews, commentaries, case reports, and short communications on a wide range of topics in women’s healthcare from clinicians and researchers around the globe. This multidisciplinary journal covers women’s healthcare across the lifespan and supports primary care practitioners working in a variety of settings and populations. The article processing charge (APC) is $3,200.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Nursing-Maternity and Midwifery
Editor-in-chief Robert W DownsPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 31, Japan 1, Norway 1 (33 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMedicine10.3%
- Reproductive Health and ContraceptionMedicine7.3%
- Diversity and Career in MedicineSocial Sciences6.7%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine5.7%
- Maternal and Perinatal Health InterventionsMedicine5.7%
- Gestational Diabetes Research and ManagementMedicine4.7%
- Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningMedicine4.5%
- Sex and Gender in HealthcareMedicine4.4%
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 | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Zone 4 |
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)
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.57LetPub ·
- h-index
- 25OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 104OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.98OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.69%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 138LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 679 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 80 | 80 | 4 |
| 2025 | 144 | 144 | 98 |
| 2024 | 117 | 117 | 231 |
| 2023 | 74 | 74 | 391 |
| 2022 | 116 | 116 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 78 | 78 | 926 |
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 18 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 18 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 | USD 3,000 | No | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,450 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,450 | No | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
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 prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 4,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted5
- case reportOriginal Articles 4,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words Maximum of five (5) tables Maximum of five (5) figures Review Articles Case Rep…Length not stated
- commentaryOriginal Articles 4,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words Maximum of five (5) tables Maximum of five (5) figures Review Articles Case Rep…Length not stated
- letters to the editorOriginal Articles 4,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words Maximum of five (5) tables Maximum of five (5) figures Review Articles Case Rep…Length not stated
- original articleOriginal Articles 4,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words Maximum of five (5) tables Maximum of five (5) figures Review Articles Case Rep…Length not stated
- review articleOriginal Articles 4,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 250 words Maximum of five (5) tables Maximum of five (5) figures Review Articles Case Rep…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review and publication process, this journal has adopted CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). CRediT is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, which is used to describe each author’s individual contributions to the work. You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please…
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 Reports 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 fu…
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 rejec…
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
- Mary Ann Liebert
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2688-4844
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Womens Health Reports
What CAS zone is Womens Health Reports in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Womens Health Reports is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Obstetrics & Gynecology. 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 Womens Health Reports?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.5; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.6, h-index 25.
How long does peer review take at Womens Health Reports?
Authors report an average review time of about 18 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Womens Health Reports?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 4,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Womens Health Reports based?
Of the 33 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (31), Japan (1) and Norway (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Womens Health Reports?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Womens Health Reports is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Womens Health Reports open access, and what is the APC?
Womens Health Reports is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,000.
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: .