Public Health Genomics

Aims & Scope

Public Health Genomics is the leading international journal focusing on the timely translation of genome-based knowledge and technologies into public health, health policies, and healthcare as a whole.

This peer-reviewed journal is a bimonthly forum featuring original papers, reviews, short communications, and policy statements.

It is supplemented by topic-specific issues providing a comprehensive, holistic and ‘all-inclusive’ picture of the chosen subject.

Multidisciplinary in scope, it combines theoretical and empirical work from a range of disciplines, notably public health, molecular and medical sciences, the humanities and social sciences.

In so doing, it also takes into account rapid scientific advances from fields such as systems biology, microbiomics, epigenomics or information and communication technologies as well as the high potential of ‘big data’ for public health.

What was until very recently no more than a vision for a new era of public health, in which advances in the ‘-omic’ sciences would be integrated into strategies aiming at benefiting population health, has now become a response to the very pressing need for the development of effective personalized healthcare which is complementary to health protection and health promotion.

The aim of Public Health Genomics is to facilitate a broad dialogue between academia, the private sector and government bodies.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.5
2024	1.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.491

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	60

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11774

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	141

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline
• Embase

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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.

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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.

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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.

• Public Engagement as a Means of Restoring Public Trust in Science – Hitting the Notes, but Missing the Music?

  Citation: 460

  Authors: Brian

• Public and Biobank Participant Attitudes toward Genetic Research Participation and Data Sharing

  Citation: 197

  Authors: A.A., W.A., J., M.E.

• Communicating Genetic and Genomic Information: Health Literacy and Numeracy Considerations

  Citation: 177

  Authors: D.H., K.A., D., I., D.W.

• Motivations and Perceptions of Early Adopters of Personalized Genomics: Perspectives from Research Participants

  Citation: 144

  Authors: S.E., E.S., C., G., M.F., R.E., L., B.A.

• PopGen: Population-Based Recruitment of Patients and Controls for the Analysis of Complex Genotype-Phenotype Relationships

  Citation: 138

  Authors: Michael, Susanna, Huberta, Peter J.P., Nour Eddine, Stefan

• Genetic Variants Associated with Complex Human Diseases Show Wide Variation across Multiple Populations

  Citation: 136

  Authors: A., C.

• Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: User Motivations, Decision Making, and Perceived Utility of Results

  Citation: 124

  Authors: J. Scott, Michele C., Deanna Alexis, Wendy R., Mack T., Robert C.

• ECLAMC: The Latin-American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations

  Citation: 119

  Authors: Eduardo E., Iêda M.

• Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Genomic Data Sharing: Genome Research Participants’ Perspectives

  Citation: 118

  Authors: J.M., M.J., T., P.A., S.G., A.L.

• Science and the Sources of Hype

  Citation: 115

  Authors: T., C.

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