Health Policy and Planning

Aims & Scope

Health Policy and Planning publishes health policy and systems research focusing on low- and middle-income countries.

Our journal provides an international forum for publishing original and high-quality research that addresses questions pertinent to policy-makers, public health researchers and practitioners.

Health Policy and Planning is published 10 times a year.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science

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
• Apc url
• 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 2,423.00 GBP. 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.

• Constructing socio-economic status indices: how to use principal components analysis

  Citation: 2349

  Authors: S., L.

• Reforming the health sector in developing countries: the central role of policy analysis

  Citation: 902

  Authors: GILL, LUCY

• 'Doing' health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges

  Citation: 568

  Authors: G., J., H., S. F, R., L.

• How to do (or not to do) … Designing a discrete choice experiment for application in a low-income country

  Citation: 466

  Authors: Lindsay J, Kara, Barbara

• Thirty years of national health insurance in South Korea: lessons for achieving universal health care coverage

  Citation: 443

  Authors: S.

• Calculating QALYs, comparing QALY and DALY calculations

  Citation: 400

  Authors: F.

• Which intervention design factors influence performance of community health workers in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic review

  Citation: 383

  Authors: Maryse C, Marjolein, Miriam, Jacqueline EW, Sumit S, Hermen, Mandy M, Korrie AM

• Addressing access barriers to health services: an analytical framework for selecting appropriate interventions in low-income Asian countries

  Citation: 371

  Authors: B., P., M., P. L., W.

• Document analysis in health policy research: the READ approach

  Citation: 337

  Authors: Sarah L, Hina, Shannon A

• Understanding pathways for scaling up health services through the lens of complex adaptive systems

  Citation: 329

  Authors: L., D. H.