Globalization and Health

Globalization and Health is an open-access journal of global public health, founded in 2005 and published by BMC, part of Springer Nature, examining how globalization processes affect health and its determinants, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.1《全球化与健康》（Globalization and Health）是一份全球公共卫生开放获取期刊，2005 年创刊，由（Springer Nature）旗下的（BMC）出版，考察全球化进程如何影响健康及其决定因素，2025 年影响因子为 6.1。

Scope

• The journal is a transdisciplinary title that situates public health and well-being within the dynamic forces of global development, publishing original research on how globalization processes affect global public health through their impacts on health systems and the social, economic, commercial and political determinants of health该刊是一份跨学科期刊，把公共卫生与福祉置于全球发展的动态力量之中，发表关于全球化进程如何经由卫生系统以及健康的社会、经济、商业与政治决定因素影响全球公共卫生的原创研究。
• It embraces policy, health systems, political economy, international relations and community perspectives, welcomes single-country studies that highlight globalization mechanisms or global policy relevance, and encourages submissions from authors in all world regions and from junior scholars该刊涵盖政策、卫生系统、政治经济学、国际关系与社区视角，欢迎凸显全球化机制或全球政策意义的单一国家研究，并鼓励来自世界各地区作者与青年学者的投稿。
• Dedicated sections cover development aid and humanitarianism, cross-border threats to health such as novel zoonotic outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance, and the trade, investment and commercial determinants of health专设栏目涵盖发展援助与人道主义、跨境健康威胁（如新发人畜共患疫情与抗微生物药物耐药性）以及贸易、投资与健康的商业决定因素。
• Further sections address climate change and environmental health, global governance, foreign policy and the geopolitics of health, health systems and policy research, and migration, mobility and health其余栏目讨论气候变化与环境健康、全球治理、外交政策与健康的地缘政治、卫生系统与政策研究以及移民、流动与健康。
• The journal publishes original research of up to 8,000 words excluding references, commentaries of up to 3,000 words and evidence reviews, and no longer accepts bibliometric analyses该刊发表篇幅不超过 8000 字（参考文献除外）的原创研究、不超过 3000 字的评论以及证据综述，不再接收文献计量分析。
• As a specialty journal it does not publish global or national disease epidemiology or health care studies unless they analyse globalization-related processes, and descriptive Global Burden of Disease studies are rejected as out of scope作为专门期刊，它不发表全球或国家层面的疾病流行病学与医疗服务研究，除非其中含有对全球化相关进程的分析，描述性的全球疾病负担研究因超出范围而被退稿。

History

• The journal was founded in 2005 with Greg Martin of Ireland's Health Service Executive as founding editor, and its first articles appeared in April 2005该刊创办于 2005 年，爱尔兰卫生服务局的（Greg Martin）任创刊主编，首批文章于 2005 年 4 月问世。 ^[1]
• A companion launch article by Derek Yach explored the opportunities and constraints for health arising from globalization（Derek Yach）同期撰写的创刊文章探讨了全球化给健康带来的机遇与制约。 ^[2]
• The journal is electronic only, carries the single electronic ISSN 1744-8603, and publishes its articles continuously in one annual volume, reaching volume 22 in 2026该刊为纯电子期刊，仅有电子 ISSN 1744-8603，文章按年连续出版成卷，2026 年出到第 22 卷。
• It is fully gold open access, charging an article processing charge of 2,490 pounds sterling, 3,290 US dollars or 2,790 euros, and articles appear under CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licences该刊为全金色开放获取，文章处理费为 2490 英镑、3290 美元或 2790 欧元，文章以（CC BY）或（CC BY-NC-ND）许可发布。
• The journal is abstracted and indexed in DOAJ, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, Scopus, the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Science Citation Index该刊被（DOAJ）、（MEDLINE）、（PubMed Central）、（Scopus）以及科学引文索引扩展版（SCIE）与社会科学引文索引（SSCI）收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 4.185 in 2021 through 10.401 in 2022 and 4.5 in 2024 to 6.1 in 2025, when it ranked 32nd of 443 journals in public, environmental and occupational health in both the science and social science editions, and the median time from submission to first decision is six days其影响因子由 2021 年的 4.185 经 2022 年的 10.401 与 2024 年的 4.5 至 2025 年的 6.1，当年在科学与社会科学两个版本的公共卫生、环境与职业卫生类 443 种期刊中均列第 32 位，投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 6 天。

Editors

• The journal is led by three Editors-in-Chief, Deborah Gleeson of La Trobe University in Melbourne, Taufique Joarder of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute in Singapore and Lauren Paremoer of the University of Cape Town in South Africa该刊由三位主编共同执掌，分别是墨尔本拉筹伯大学的（Deborah Gleeson）、新加坡（SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute）的（Taufique Joarder）与南非开普敦大学的（Lauren Paremoer）。
• An earlier pairing of Ronald Labonte of the University of Ottawa and Katerini Storeng of the University of Oslo as co-editors-in-chief has handed over to the current trio, with Labonte now Editor Emeritus and Greg Martin remaining Founding Editor此前由渥太华大学的（Ronald Labonte）与奥斯陆大学的（Katerini Storeng）共同主编，后移交现任三位主编，（Ronald Labonte）现任荣誉主编，（Greg Martin）仍为创刊主编。
• The editorial board lists 30 editors from all inhabited continents alongside the three editors-in-chief, the Founding Editor and the Editor Emeritus除三位主编、创刊主编与荣誉主编外，编委会还列有来自各大洲的 30 位编辑。
• Board members are based in the Philippines, the United States, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia, Sweden, Norway, India, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, South Africa and the United Kingdom, among others编委分驻菲律宾、美国、澳大利亚、加拿大、香港、巴西、墨西哥、塞尔维亚、瑞典、挪威、印度、西班牙、荷兰、爱尔兰、南非与英国等地。
• Their expertise spans public health policy, health systems research, political economy, trade and health, and epidemiology编委的专长涵盖公共卫生政策、卫生系统研究、政治经济学、贸易与健康以及流行病学。