Public Health Reviews

Public Health Reviews (PHR) is a multi-disciplinary, global, open access journal dedicated to publishing high quality Reviews (all formats) and Policy Briefs of importance to public health.

Co-Editors in Chief: Ana Ribeiro (Portugal), Kasia Czabanowska (Netherlands), Sarah Mantwill (Switzerland)

Managing Editor: Christopher Woodrow (christopher.woodrow@swisstph.ch)

Editorial Assistant: Sunghea Park

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SSPH+ acquired Public Health Reviews in November 2020 through a transfer in ownership from The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).

SSPH+ and ASPHER collaborate to publish Calls and ASPHER statements. PHR is published open access by Frontiers, Lausanne since January 2021.


The Article Processing Charges (APC) for PHR comprise of the production costs of the publisher (not discounted) and the editorial costs of the owner, the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+). SSPH+ discounts the editorial costs for first authors from low and middle income countries according to the research4life country classification (group A and B countries). 

2022-2024: PHR offers waivers for first authors from low and middle income countries (GLOBEQUITY, funded by the open science program of swissuniversities).

Article type APC (CHF)
regular group A
countries		 group B
countries
Systematic Review 1'980 1'400 1'700
Review 1'980 1'400 1'700
Mini Review 1'400 1'200 1'300
Policy Brief 1'400 1'200 1'300
Editorial* 900 900 900
Commentary* 900 900 900
*free for invited authors


The above fees and discounts are valid for articles submitted on or after February 01, 2021. APCs may be subject to periodic revision. The invoiced APC is the one valid at the time of manuscript submission.


PHR Impact Factor!

We are pleased to announce that PHR has received a 2023 Journal Impact Factor of 3.5. This means that PHR is ranked 84/403 (Q1; percentile 79.3) in the “Public, Environmental and Occupational Health” subject category. PHR’s 2023 CiteScore is 8.3. PHR is currently ranked 1/40 (98th Percentile) under the 2023 CiteScore category “Community and Home Care” and 60/665 (78th Percentile) under “Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health".