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Health Research Policy and Systems covers all aspects of the organisation and use of health research – including agenda setting, building health research capacity, and how research as a whole benefits decision makers, practitioners in health and related fields, and society at large.

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Featured article

Identifying priority technical and context-specific issues in improving the conduct, reporting and use of health economic evaluation in low- and middle-income countries

Health Research Policy and Systems (2018) 16:4

The authors aim to identify the top priority issues that impede the conduct, reporting and use of economic evaluation as well as potential solutions as an input for future research topics by the international Decision Support Initiative and other movements.

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Editors-in-Chief

Kathryn Oliver, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Chigozie Jesse Uneke, Ebonyi State University, Nigeria

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As New Content Itempart of a cross-journal series, we are calling for papers on 'Misinformation and health'. The series addresses topics related to the spread of false or misleading health information. More details can be found here.

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Call for papers

We are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for our new thematic series on "The role of the health research system during the COVID-19 epidemic: experiences, challenges and future vision". This will focus on the role of health research systems in the control and management of COVID-19, so that the experiences of countries can be shared with each other and the lessons learned are accessible to all. More details can be found here.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    4.0 - 2-year Impact Factor
    4.3 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.820 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.353 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    70 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    196 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    1,738,266 downloads
    1,598 Altmetric mentions