Health Economics, Policy and Law

Aims & Scope

International trends highlight the confluence of economics, politics and legal considerations in the health policy process.

Health Economics, Policy and Law serves as a forum for scholarship on health and social care policy issues from these perspectives, and is of use to academics, policy makers and practitioners.

HEPL is international in scope and publishes both theoretical and applied work.

Considerable emphasis is placed on rigorous conceptual development and analysis, and on the presentation of empirical evidence that is relevant to the policy process.

A key output of HEPL is original research articles, but the editor also encourages readers to propose topics for editorials, review articles and debate essays.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science
• Medline
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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
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• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Medicine, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 3,550.00 USD. Learn more.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Access as a policy-relevant concept in low- and middle-income countries

  Citation: 226

  Authors: DI, MICHAEL, STEPHEN

• Choice experiments in health: the good, the bad, the ugly and toward a brighter future

  Citation: 166

  Authors: JORDAN J., EMILY

• Australia's Response to COVID-19

  Citation: 141

  Authors: Anika, Stephen

• Explicit incorporation of equity considerations into economic evaluation of public health interventions

  Citation: 136

  Authors: RICHARD, MIKE, HELEN

• What level of domestic government health expenditure should we aspire to for universal health coverage?

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Di, Filip, John-Arne

• The ten characteristics of the high-performing chronic care system

  Citation: 122

  Authors: Chris

• Projecting shortages and surpluses of doctors and nurses in the OECD: what looms ahead

  Citation: 115

  Authors: Richard M., Daniel R.

• Dying of corruption

  Citation: 114

  Authors: Sören, Bo

• Explaining medical disputes in Chinese public hospitals: the doctor–patient relationship and its implications for health policy reforms

  Citation: 112

  Authors: Alex Jingwei, Jiwei

• Overcoming fragmentation in health care: chronic care in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands

  Citation: 109

  Authors: Ellen, Cécile, Maria, Annalijn, Antje, Arianne, Maria, Brigit, Andreas, Hubertus J. M.