Healthmed Journal of Public Health (Healthmed J Public Health) is a quarterly, open access peer-reviewed international journal published by Health Med Science (HMS) Research International which is founded by a group of internationally renowned scientists. This journal publishes original research as Full Articles, Clinical Studies, Observational Studies, or Short Communications, Review Articles (Comprehensive Review, Mini Review, Systematic Review, and Systematic Review with Meta-analysis), Case Studies, Prospective, and Letters to the Editor on any aspects of Public Health. The journal also publishes special issue articles focusing on a special and important aspect of Public Health. The accepted articles will be published online within 24 hours of acceptance and will be ready for circulation, and visualization to the wide range of coverages. The regular issues will be published in the last week of every three months.
Editorial Policy
Manuscripts submitted to the Healthmed Journal of Public Health are preliminarily assessed by our editorial office for plagiarism and basic criteria for submissions as per the authors’ instructions in the journals. Then the editor evaluates the manuscript. Based on the merit of the manuscript, the editorial team will select potential peer reviewers within the field of research to send the manuscript for peer review and recommendation.
The editor/Editor-in-Chief is liable for the overall editorial responsibility of the journal. Section Editors keep an eye on the manuscripts submitted to their section while Associate Editors are assigned to handle the manuscripts.
Peer review policy
All manuscripts are subject to rigorous peer review and editorial assessment before publication. Independent experts of the relevant research areas blindly evaluate the scientific validity of the manuscripts for originality, quality of research, reliability of data, level of inventions and innovations, research question, appropriate methodology, data analysis, and significance of the findings to help the editors for taking decisions on the manuscript whether the manuscript will be published in the journal or be rejected. Only high-quality manuscripts which have not previously been published elsewhere or are not under consideration for publication in any journal will be rapidly published after rigorous evaluations of peer review and editorial assessment.
Healthmed Journal of Public Health follows the rules of a double-blind peer review system in which the names of the authors have been excluded from the manuscripts before sending to the reviewers so that the reviewers cannot see the names and affiliations of the authors to avoid any conflict of interest. Similarly, the authors also cannot see the name and affiliation of the reviewers in the peer review reports for the authors. The reviewers do not know the names of the authors, and the authors do not know who reviewed their manuscripts. The peer reviewers and Editors are fully accountable for the decisions made
Open Access Policy
Immediately after acceptance, all articles are published by the Healthmed Journal of Public Health and are freely accessible online by the readers without subscription charges according to the open access policy of this journal. The articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Common license which allows unrestricted use and distribution.
Rapid publication policy
Healthmed Journal of Public Health believes in a fast publication policy whilst maintaining rigorous peer review. Article submission and peer review are fully managed electronically. The editorial office is highly active and supportive of the processing of articles. All the submitted articles are checked by the expert editorial team for originality (plagiarism) journal compliance, and quality of content and writing. The submitted manuscript undergoes screening within 2 working days, the article is sent to the reviewers by 1 week after submission, the peer review report collection by 2 weeks after sending it to the reviewers, and the accepted manuscript is available online within 24 hours after acceptance. Usually, a good-quality manuscript is published within a month after its submission.
Credit for the contributions of the Editors and Reviewers
In order to give credit to the contributions of the reviewers and editors, the names of the handling editor and peer reviewers are included in the published. Besides, the review records of the reviewers are also included in Publons.
Language
Healthmed Journal of Public Health accepts and publishes manuscripts in the English language only.
Copyright
The authors retain the copyright of the article published in the Healthmed Journal of Public Health and they are free to reproduce and disseminate their work as per the policy of the journal.