Contents
- Criteria for Evaluating Health Economics Journals
- Editorial Standards and Peer Review Process
- The Top 10 Health Economics Journals
Criteria for Evaluating Health Economics Journals
How do you select the health economics journal that’s right for your research?
The process can be long and stressful, with lots to coordinate. You might have deadlines around major conferences, commercial pressures…and of course, the worry that if you choose the wrong journal, you damage both your own credibility and that of your organisation.
We’ve helped 1000s of researchers, academics and publications managers find the perfect journal for their research. These are the criteria we use to evaluate them.
Impact Factor and Citation Metrics
One commonly used benchmark for assessing journals is the impact factor as well as related citation metrics, which help quantify a publication’s influence within the academic community. Tracking the impact factor of journals can offer researchers a quick snapshot of how widely read—and therefore impactful—a publication may be. That said, metrics should be interpreted carefully. While ranking economics journals by impact factor is a useful starting point, they don’t tell the entire story. Researchers should also consider the journal’s scope, editorial board expertise, and the rigour of its peer review process.
When we support our clients with journal selection and submission, we’ll take account of all these factors.
These elements can be just as critical to ensuring a journal’s overall quality as numerical indicators like citation counts.
