Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal : WPSAR

Aims & Scope

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal (WPSAR) is a peer review journal on the surveillance of and response to public health events in the Western Pacific Region.

Public health events may be acute or ongoing and can fall under any of the following areas: communicable diseases, natural disasters, food safety, bioterrorism, and chemical and radiological events.

Other events and topics may also be considered.

WPSAR is an open access journal and is free of charge for both readers and authors.

It is also a continuous publication which means articles will be published as soon as they have completed the review and editing process.

Rapid publication will be considered for articles describing ongoing outbreaks or relevant public health events.

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
• PubMed

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in 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 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.

• The use of social media in public health surveillance

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Isaac Chin-Hai, Zion Tsz Ho, King-Wa

• Sudden increase in human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in China, September–December 2016

  Citation: 87

  Authors: Lei, Ruiqi, Lei, Changjun, Jiabing, Dayan, Chao, Nijuan, Yali, Dan, Haitian, Yuelong, Zijian, Qun, Daxin

• Molecular characterization of NDM-1 producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Singapore hospitals

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Jeanette, Grace, Michelle, Roland, Prabha, Raymond

• Male-female differences in the number of reported incident dengue fever cases in six Asian countries

  Citation: 46

  Authors: Martha, Yuzo

• Implementing hospital-based surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections caused by influenza and other respiratory pathogens in New Zealand

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Q Sue, Michael, Colin, Sally, Deborah, Cameron, Adrian, Conroy, Susan, Lyndsay, Graham, Don, Tim, Ange, Ruth, Nikki, Nevil, Paul, Richard, Diana, Jazmin, Mark, Marc-Alain

• A foodborne outbreak of Aeromonas hydrophila in a college, Xingyi City, Guizhou, China, 2012

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Qian, Guo-Qing, Guang-Peng, Zhi-Tin, Guang-Hai, Guang

• Seasonal influenza vaccine policies, recommendations and use in the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Region

  Citation: 43

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• Newborn care practices and home-based postnatal newborn care programme – Mewat, Haryana, India, 2013

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Latika Nath, Prabhdeep, Rakesh, Suresh, Vinod, Manoj

• Early response to COVID-19 in the Philippines

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Arianna Maever, Veincent Christian, Manuel

• The threat of Chikungunya in Oceania

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Paul, Grace, Roshiela, Laurent, John, Boris