Overview
Discover Public Health is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to public health.
Publication costs for Discover Public Health are covered by Springer Nature until 1 January 2025. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication before that date will not pay an article-processing charge. Find out more in our submission guidelines. Current charge: £0/$0/€0 Standard charge: £1090.00/$1590.00/€1190.00
- Considers articles from a broad range of public health disciplines.
- Formerly Emerging Themes in Epidemiology (2023 Impact Factor: 3.6), Discover Public Health is expected to receive its first Impact Factor under the new name in 2026.
- Topics include epidemiology, occupational health, disease prevention, health policy, and more.
- A Discover journal focused on speed of submission and review, service, and integrity.
- Journal Impact Factor
- 3.6 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 3.8 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 11 days
- Downloads
- 368,726 (2023)
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Introducing In Review
In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Public Health. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:
- Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review
- Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level
- Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.
See the full range of benefits of In Review and how to opt-in
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Topical Collections
The journal publishes guest-edited Topical Collections on emerging hot topics of relevance to all aspects of public health. Our Topical Collections allow readers to quickly identify research on subject areas of particular interest to them.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 3005-0774
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- BFI List
- Baidu
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
- DOAJ
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBASE
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Gale
- Google Scholar
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- Reaxys
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Semantic Scholar
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information