期刊名称：AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE NATIONS HEALTH
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Celebrating over 100 years, the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) is dedicated to publication of original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health. The Journal also regularly publishes editorials and commentaries and serves as a forum for health policy analysis. The mission of the Journal is to advance public health research, policy, practice, and education. Each month, national and international public health professionals turn to AJPH for the most current, authoritative, in-depth information in the field.
The goals of both the online and the print versions of the Journal, published monthly by the American Public Health Association, are
- To publish the best scientific research in the field of public health,
- To serve as a forum for diverse viewpoints on major public health issues and policies,
- To promote diverse public health practice models,
- To increase public and professional understanding of public health problems and their solutions through delivery channels relevant to different audiences and their needs, and
- To work in concert with the 3 main priorities of the American Public Health Association, namely to develop universal coverage, eliminate health disparities, and rebuild the public health infrastructure.
AJPH, first published in 1911, is the official Journal of the American Public Health Association, 800 I St., NW, Washington, DC 20001-3710; (202) 777-APHA(2742). APHA is a professional society founded in 1872 to represent all disciplines and specialties in public health.
IMPACT ON PUBLIC HEALTH
The AJPH impact factor for 2011 is 3.926. AJPH is ranked #3 of 131 titles in the Public, Environmental and Occupational Health category in the Social Sciences Citation Index and #13 of 157 titles for the same category in the Science edition.
QUALITY PEER REVIEW Reviewed papers usually receive careful scrutiny by 3 reviewers and additional assessment by the responsible associate editor, deputy editor, and editor-in-chief. Initial screening results in rejection of the majority of manuscripts within 2 weeks to 30 days of submission. For those papers that are selected for review, the time to first decision is about 3 months. Overall time from submission to acceptance, which includes revisions by the authors, is about 4.8 months.
Final decisions were made on 2,697 papers in 2010. Of these papers, 500 (18.54%) were accepted for publication.
UNIQUE ONLINE FEATURES
The online Journal is a delivery channel of special importance to those in the research, academic, student, and practice communities. It is the official version of the journal. Among key benefits for users are the cross-journal search capabilities and free hyperlinking from article references to full-text articles in other online journals.
Other features include focused searches for related articles or articles by the same author; online letters to the editor; email alerts to new published content; citation tracking and management; access to supplementary material; and a variety of help and feedback features to assist you in your searches.
DIVERSE CONTENT
Authors from around the world contribute their original unpublished research, social science analyses, scholarly essays, critical commentaries, and letters to the editor to AJPH. Department submissions include
- Government, Politics, and Law—public health arguments grounded in critical analysis,
- Health Policy and Ethics Forum—debates on public health issues,
- Field Action Reports—reports on practice-based programs and initiatives with potential to advance the public's health,
- Framing Health Matters—-articles featuring work in the social sciences and other disciplines,
- Faces of Public Health and Going Public—profiles of outstanding leaders and examples of vital public health work,
- Images of Public Health, Public Health Then and Now, and Voices From the Past—stories from public health history still relevant today, and
- Statistically Speaking—a forum offering highlights and guidance from the world of statistics.
BOOK REVIEWS
AJPH does not review books. Please do not send books for review.
Instructions to Authors
Editorial Manager, the American Journal of Public Health's (AJPH's) electronic peer review tracking system is accessible to authors, reviewers, editors, and staff. If you have the appropriate background for serving as a reviewer, we invite you to register. Click here to access Editorial Manager and click on the "Register Now" link if you are not already registered. You will be asked to fill out a registration form. All items with an asterisk are required to complete the registration process. If you have already registered, please enter your username and password. If you encounter any problems, please contact staff at ajph.submissions@apha.org. However, we recommend that you first take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions at: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/page/SubmissionFAQs.
HOW TO SUBMIT A MANUSCRIPT
Submit a Manuscript Here.
Before beginning the submission process, be sure that you have read our Instructions for Authors for general article information and our Submission Instructions for submission requirements. In brief, please log into Editorial Manager and click the "Submit a New Manuscript" link, and then enter in the required information as prompted. All papers must have a cover letter, abstract, full manuscript, references, and, if applicable, tables, figures, photos and supplementary data files. Authors can save their work in progress, proof and submit revisions, download and review proofs, check on the status of their article, update personal information, and review their past submission records. Decisions are sent to authors via email. If you encounter any problems during the submission process, please contact staff at ajph.submissions@apha.org.
If you have a question about AJPH interest in a specific topic, the fastest way to receive feedback is to submit the paper for evaluation. Due to the large number of manuscripts we receive on a weekly basis, Editorial and Internal staff cannot review and comment on appropriateness of articles not formally submitted.
CURRENT CALLS FOR PAPERS
AJPH is currently seeking submissions for the following upcoming theme issue: Technological Innovations in Public Health. Submissions will be accepted until March 1, 2014. For more information, click on the linked theme or visit the Calls for Papers page to learn how to submit your paper on these important public health topics.
HOW TO BECOME A PEER REVIEWER
From Dr. Northridge's recent Editorial in our April 2011 edition: "The most important collective quality of peer referees is that they themselves write and publish valued books and papers on essential topics that aim to advance public health. Authors then cite the work of these scientists and scholars and nominate them as potential peer reviewers upon formal submission of their own papers. This in turn aids the Journal editors in soliciting apt peer reviewers through the internal and external search tools available to us. The process continues when authors whose work is published in the Journal are called upon to serve as peer referees on future submissions in their areas of expertise. In this way, reviewing for the Journal serves to build community among public health scientists and scholars devoted to assembling the evidence base for improving population health and achieving health equity.
Potential peer referees are added to the Journal database in a number of ways by a variety of actors in the process. Authors who formally submit potential contributions by default become members of the community of scientists and scholars who may be called upon by the editors to serve as peer referees for the Journal. Editors make use of Ovid, Google Scholar, PubMed, and other search engines to identify experts for particular papers assigned to their care and add these experts to the system records. Peer referees—in the process of declining review invitations—often nominate colleagues and students who may render sound critiques on given topics; editors then weigh these suggestions and often add the nominated individuals to the Journal database. Finally, scientists and scholars who seek to serve as potential peer reviewers may volunteer by logging into the Journal site at http://ajph.edmgr.com and registering in our submission system. Refinements are available that allow editors to readily assess the quality, timeliness, and accumulated records of included database members as both authors and reviewers. In turn, peer reviewers may more readily view the referee reports of their fellow volunteers for a given paper once their own reviews have been uploaded" (Northridge ME. Community-building through reviewing for the journal. Am J Public Health. 2011;101(4):e1–e12. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300144).
The peer review process at AJPH is a double-blind process. Authors do not know the peer reviewers, and peer reviewers do not know the authors of the papers they are reviewing. When peer reviewers are selected to review an article, they receive an email invitation to review that specific article asking that they either accept or decline after viewing the article's abstract. If the invitation is accepted, a follow-up email is sent providing a direct link to the article to be reviewed. Peer reviewers who have not registered with Editorial Manager previously will be asked to register when clicking on the link provided in the email. If the invitation is declined or neither link is clicked, the reviewer will be removed from the request queue for this article, and the next selected peer reviewer will be sent an invitation.
Once the reviewer accesses the article PDF, they review the manuscript and then submit their decision recommendation, comments for the author, and confidential comments for the editor. The decision recommendation is selected from a drop-down menu; comments can be entered directly into the fields provided or uploaded as an attachment by clicking the "Upload Attachment" button. Reviewers have access to an archive of their past papers and performance.
Reviewed papers usually receive careful scrutiny by 3 reviewers and additional assessment by the responsible associate editor, deputy editor, and editor-in-chief. Initial screening results in rejection of the majority of manuscripts within 2 weeks of submission. For those papers that are selected for review, the time to first decision is about 3 months. Overall time from submission to acceptance, which includes revisions by the authors, is about 6 months. Staff can be reached at ajph.submissions@apha.org for assistance during the peer review process.
EDITORIAL POLICIES
AJPH aspires to select, through peer review, the highest quality science and public health practice–related manuscripts. To achieve this, the entire peer review and publication process of the AJPH must be thorough, objective, and fair. Every aspect of this process involves important ethical principles and decisions. The reputation of AJPH depends on the trust of readers, authors, researchers, reviewers, editors, public health practitioners, research subjects, funding agencies, and administrators of public health policy. This trust is enhanced by describing as explicitly as possible AJPH policies to ensure the ethical treatment of all participants in the publication process. To learn more please review our Editorial and Ethical Policies.
EDITORIAL BOARD AND STAFF
Journal Editorial Board and staff can be accessed by clicking here.
INFORMATION ON AJPH SUPPLEMENTS For more information on AJPH supplements visit here.
OPEN ACCESS
AJPH promotes open access in the scientific community. Articles submitted and accepted for publication may be made available for open access for $2,500 per article. Open access can be requested through the Editorial Manager system during the submission process or by contacting Brian Selzer at brian.selzer@apha.org any time after acceptance or publication.
Editorial Board
| Editors |
Editor-in-Chief
Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH
New York University
New York, New York |
Deputy Editor
Farzana Kapadia, PhD
New York University
New York, New York |
Feature Editor
Gabriel N. Stover, MPA
Los Angeles, California |
Image Editor
Aleisha Kropf
Bloomington, Indiana |
| Associate Editors |
Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York, New York |
Hortensia Amaro, PhD
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
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Michael R. Greenberg, PhD
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts
|
Said Ibrahim, MD, MPH
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Robert Kim-Farley, MD, MPH
UCLA School of Public Health
Encino, California
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Stewart Landers, JD, MCP
John Snow Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts
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Stella M. Yu, ScD, MPH
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Rockville, Maryland
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| International Associate Editors |
Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr., MD, PhD
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL |
Daniel Tarantola, MD
International and Global Health Consultant
FRANCE |
| Associate Editor for Statistics and Evaluation |
Roger Vaughan, DrPH, MS
Columbia University
New York, New York |
| Department Editors |
Roy Grant, MA
Government, Law, and Public Health Practice Public Health Policy Briefs
Children's Health Fund
New York, New York
|
Elizabeth Fee, PhD
Images of Health,
Public Health Then and Now,
Voices From the Past
Bethesda, Maryland |
Theodore M. Brown, PhD
Images of Health,
Public Health Then and Now,
Voices From the Past
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York |
Mark A. Rothstein, JD
Health Policy and Ethics Forum
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, Kentucky
|
Deborah Holtzman, PhD, MSW
Framing Health Matters
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia |
Kenneth R. McLeroy, PhD
Framing Health Matters
Texas A&M University
Bryan, Texas |
| Freelance Staff |
John Lane
Copyeditor
|
Kelly Burch
Copyeditor
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Greg Edmondson
Copyeditor |
Alisa Riccardi
Copyeditor |
Trish Weisman
Copyeditor |
Gary Norton
Copyeditor |
Michelle Quirk
Copyeditor |
Eileen Wolfberg
Proofreader
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Chris Filiatreau
Proofreader |
Nestor Ashbery
Proofreader
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Alex Cook
Proofreader |
Vanessa Sifford
Graphic Designer |
| Editorial Board |
Chair
Jeffrey R. Wilson, PhD, MS
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona |
Vice Chair
Chinua Akukwe, MPH
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
|
Eric Buhi, PhD
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
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Justin B. Moore, PhD
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
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Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD
Alcohol Research Group
Oakland, CA |
Jeffrey S. Hallam, PhD
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
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Samuel F. Posner, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
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Maureen Y. Lichtveld, MD, MPH
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Dio Kavalieratos, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Joan Reede, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
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Keith Elder, PhD, MPH
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, Missouri
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Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD, MPH
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York |
David H. Wegman, MD, MSc
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts |
Ruth Zambrana, PhD
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
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Caroline Bergeron, DrPH(c), MSc
University of South Carolina
(Student)
Columbia, South Carolina
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