期刊名称：POPULATION HEALTH METRICS ISSN： 1478-7954 出版频率： Continuous publication 出版社： BMC, CAMPUS, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON, ENGLAND, N1 9XW 期刊网址： http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/ 影响因子： 2.768(2015年) 3.347(2014年) 2.537(2013年) 2.835 (2012年) 主题范畴： PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL 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 Aims & scope         Population Health Metrics is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal featuring innovative research that addresses all aspects of the measurement of population health, including concepts, methods, ethics, and results.         Population Health Metrics will address issues relating to concepts, methods, ethics applications and results in the measurement of the health of populations. This will include areas of health state measurement and valuation, summary measures of level of population health, and inequality in population health, descriptive epidemiology at the population level, burden of disease and injury analysis, disease and risk factor modelling for populations, and comparative assessment of risks to health at population level. The journal aims to provide a platform for researchers in all these areas to share their findings with the global research community.      Many traditional epidemiology journals concentrate on causal studies and on quasi-experimental design. Studies reporting on descriptive epidemiology of major diseases, injuries and risk factors, and on the measurement of health at the population level are not well represented in traditional journals. Additionally there are conceptual, ethical and technical issues in the  construction and use of summary measures of population health. While there are journals that accept papers in all these areas, they are scattered across a range of disciplines, and there is currently no journal whose primary scope encompasses measurement of population health as outlined above. Open access      All articles published by Population Health Metrics are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.     Authors of articles published in Population Health Metrics are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement.     For authors who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BioMed Central can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed. Article-processing charges     Open access publishing is not without costs. Population Health Metrics therefore levies an article-processing charge of ?1115/$1825/€1340 for each article accepted for publication. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. Generally, if the submitting author's institution is a Member the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. For further details, see our article-processing charge page. A limited number of waivers for article-processing charges are also available at the editors' discretion, and authors wishing to apply for these waivers should contact the editors. Indexing services     All articles published in Population Health Metrics are included in:    CABI    CAS    Cinahl    Citebase    DOAJ    Embase    EmCare    Global Health    Google Scholar    Index Copernicus    OAIster    PubMed    PubMed Central    SCImago    Scirus    Scopus    Social Sciences Citation Index    SOCOLAR    Zetoc The full text of all research articles is deposited in digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands). Population Health Metrics is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 2.84. Publication and peer review process Criteria for publication Population Health Metricsconsiders the following types of articles: Research - reports of data from original research relating to methods or results within the scope of the journal. Reviews - comprehensive, authoritative, summaries of recent insights in specific research areas within the scope of the journal; these articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board. Commentaries - short, focused articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board. Peer-review policies Peer review in Population Health Metrics is designed to ensure that the research published is 'good science'. To promote transparency and accountability, a policy of open peer review of submitted articles is adopted by the Journal. Submitted articles will generally be reviewed by two external experts. Reviewers advise the editors, who are responsible for the final decision to accept or reject a manuscript. Reviewers give detailed comments in the following areas to advise the editors and to give guidance to authors on revisions if needed: importance, originality, clarity and presentation, validity and scientific quality, study design and methodology, statistical standards, and justification of conclusions in terms of evidence presented. Edited by Christopher JL Murray and Alan D. Lopez, Population Health Metrics is supported by an expert Editorial Board. Population Health Metrics operates an 'open peer review' policy meaning reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. The pre-publication history including all submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses will be linked to from the published article. Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My Population Health Metrics, a personalized section of the site. Reprints High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see ourreprints website for further information about ordering reprints. Supplements Population Health Metrics will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. For further information, pleasecontact us. Editorial policies All manuscripts submitted to PHM should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies. Citing articles in Population Health Metrics Articles in Population Health Metrics should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number. Article citations follow this format: Authors: Title. Popul Health Metrics [year], [volume number]:[article number]. e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Popul Health Metrics 2009, 1:115. refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal. Why publish your article in Population Health Metrics? High visibility Population Health Metrics's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results. Speed of publication Population Health Metrics offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles are published with their final citation immediately upon acceptance in a provisional PDF form. The article will subsequently be published in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Population Health Metrics and BioMed Central. Flexibility Online publication in Population Health Metrics gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles). Promotion and press coverage Articles published in Population Health Metrics are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on Population Health Metrics's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage. In addition, articles published in Population Health Metrics may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Population Health Metrics. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here. Copyright Authors of articles published in Population Health Metrics retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement).   Instructions to Authors Population Health Metrics is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal featuring innovative research that addresses all aspects of the measurement of population health, including concepts, methods, ethics, and results. Each article type published by Population Health Metrics follows a specific format, as detailed in the corresponding instructions for authors; please choose an article type from the list on the left to view the instructions for authors. The instructions for authors includes information about preparing a manuscript for submission to Population Health Metrics, criteria for publication and the online submission process. Other relevant information about the journal's policies, the refereeing process and so on can be found in 'About this journal'. Editorial Board Editors-in-Chief Christopher J.L. Murray Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, United States of America Alan D. Lopez School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia   Associate Editors Majid Ezzati Imperial College London, United Kingdom Emmanuela Gakidou IHME, University of Washington, United States of America Michel Guillot University of Pennsylvania, United States of America Aisha O. Jumaan United States of America Rafael Lozano IHME, University of Washington, United States of America Ali Mokdad IHME, University of Washington, United States of America Joshua Salomon Harvard School of Public Health, United States of America Kenji Shibuya University of Tokyo, Japan Theo Vos IHME, University of Washington, United States of America   Managing Editors William Heisel Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, United States of America Kate Muller Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, United States of America Editorial Board Dan Brock Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health, United States of America Peter Byass Umea University, Sweden David Cutler Harvard University, United States of America Lalit Dandona Public Health Foundation of India, India George Davey-Smith University of Bristol, United Kingdom Marie Louise Essink-Bot University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, Netherlands Tim Evans School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh Marc Fleurbaey University Paris Descartes, France Ichiro Kawachi Harvard University, United States of America Paul Kind University of York, United Kingdom Gary King Harvard University, United States of America Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek International Diabetes Federation, Poland Anton E. Kunst Dept. of Public Health, Erasmus University, Netherlands Ana Langer Harvard School of Public Health, United States of America Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom Matthew McKenna Fulton County Dept of Health and Wellness, United States of America Vikram Patel London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, India Samuel Preston University of Pennsylvania, United States of America Juergen Rehm Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada Jonathan Samet University of Southern California, United States of America Vladimir M Shkolnikov Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany Cynthia Stanton Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States of America Martin Tobias New Zealand Ministry of Health, New Zealand Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Eddy van Doorslaer Erasmus University, Netherlands Michael Wolfson Statistics Canada, Canada