Rural and Remote Health

Aims & Scope

Rural and Remote Health is funded by Australian University Departments of Rural Health (ARHEN members) and Australian Rural Clinical Schools (FRAME members), the Rural Health Education Foundation, and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM); it is administered by James Cook University, Australia.

The Journal aims to provide an easily accessible, peer-reviewed, international evidence base to inform improvement in rural health service delivery and health status in rural communities.

The multidisciplinary International Editorial Board reflects the five major thematic areas of the journal: rural health practice; policy; status/research; health education; and Indigenous health.

The Journal welcomes submissions in the form of: original research; review articles; clinical case reports or reviews; policy, project or conference reports; personal views; book reviews; rural health history; letters to the editor; research letters; and biographies of/tributes to/obituaries of important figures in the field of Rural and Remote Health.

Authors will therefore understand that manuscripts without rural content and rural-specific conclusions are declined without assessment.

The journal has no subscription fees, nor are there any article processing charges or submission charges.

Readers may register to receive immediate email notification of published articles in their areas of interest.

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
• Medline

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Health Professions, Medicine and Social Sciences, 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 Health Professions, Medicine and Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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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.

• Why do medical graduates choose rural careers?

  Citation: 60

  Authors: John, Brian, Brendan

• Patient perspectives on primary health care in rural communities: effects of geography on access, continuity and efficiency

  Citation: 52

  Authors: Sabrina, Sandra

• A new model to understand the career choice and practice location decisions of medical graduates

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Pamela, Jennene, Paul

• Adapting to a new reality: COVID-19 coronavirus and online education in the health professions

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Amy, Andy, Anthony, Tony

• Telehealth services in rural and remote Australia: a systematic review of models of care and factors influencing success and sustainability

  Citation: 42

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• A critical review of interventions to redress the inequitable distribution of healthcare professionals to rural and remote areas

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Nathaniel, Ian, Elma, Steve, Therese, Ben

• Rural longitudinal integrated clerkships: lessons from two programs on different continents

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Ian, Paul, Roger

• Telehealth services in rural and remote Australia: a systematic review of models of care and factors influencing success and sustainability

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Natalie, Liam, Anthony

• Health and access issues among Australian adolescents: a rural-urban comparison

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Susan, Diana, Michael, Melissa, Tim, Garth, David

• A comparison of barriers to accessing services for 
 mental and physical health conditions in a sample of 
 rural Australian adults

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Kate, Melissa, Martin, James