Journal of Global Health

The Journal of Global Health is a general medical journal founded in 2011 with the University of Edinburgh and published by the International Society of Global Health, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.5.《全球健康杂志》（Journal of Global Health）是面向全球健康的综合性医学期刊，2011 年由爱丁堡大学参与创办，由国际全球健康学会出版，2025 年影响因子为 5.5。

Scope

• The journal publishes work on issues relevant to global health, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income settings.本刊发表与全球健康相关的议题，重点关注中低收入国家的场景。
• The global burden of disease, risk factor epidemiology and health metrics are recurrent subjects.全球疾病负担、危险因素流行病学与健康测量指标是反复出现的主题。
• Maternal, newborn and child health, and nutrition, form a large part of its output.孕产妇、新生儿与儿童健康以及营养学，占其发表内容的很大部分。
• Control of infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and vaccine-preventable infections is covered.疟疾、结核与疫苗可预防感染等传染病的防控均有收录。
• Health systems, policy and the evaluation of large-scale programmes are published.卫生体系、政策以及大规模项目的评估均予发表。
• Non-communicable diseases and their emergence in lower-income countries are within scope.非传染性疾病及其在较低收入国家的兴起亦在其范围之内。
• Original articles, viewpoints, research protocols and methodological pieces are all accepted.原创论文、观点文章、研究方案与方法学文章均被接受。

History

• The Journal of Global Health was founded in 2011, built around the Centre for Global Health at the University of Edinburgh.《全球健康杂志》创办于 2011 年，依托爱丁堡大学的全球健康中心建立。
• It is published by the International Society of Global Health, which grew out of the Edinburgh University Global Health Society.本刊由国际全球健康学会出版，该学会源自爱丁堡大学全球健康学会。
• Articles are released online as soon as they are ready, and are collected into two print issues each June and December.文章一经就绪即在线发布，并分别于每年 6 月与 12 月汇入两期纸质合刊。
• The journal has been indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and PubMed, and its editors publish annual conflict-of-interest declarations.本刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）、（Scopus）与（PubMed）收录，其编辑每年发布利益冲突声明。
• Its impact factor reached 7.664 in 2022 before settling at 5.5 in 2025.其影响因子在 2022 年达到 7.664，2025 年为 5.5。
• Its Google Scholar H5-index of 69 places it among the most cited titles in public health.其在（Google Scholar）上的 H5 指数为 69，位居公共卫生领域被引最多的期刊之列。

Editors

• Igor Rudan holds the chair in international health and molecular medicine at the University of Edinburgh and serves as an editor-in-chief.爱丁堡大学国际健康与分子医学讲席教授 Igor Rudan 担任主编之一。
• Harry Campbell, professor of genetic epidemiology and public health at the same university, is the second editor-in-chief.同校的遗传流行病学与公共卫生教授 Harry Campbell 为另一位主编。
• Ana Marusic of the University of Split School of Medicine was an editor-in-chief in the journal's early years.斯普利特大学医学院的 Ana Marusic 在期刊创办初期曾任主编。
• Regional editors cover North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, China, India and Australia.区域编辑覆盖北美、南美、欧洲、非洲、亚洲、中国、印度与澳大利亚。
• Manuscripts are peer reviewed, and the editors publish an annual statement of competing interests as a matter of policy.稿件经同行评审，编辑按既定政策每年公布利益冲突声明。
• Articles are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, with article processing charges payable by authors or their funders.文章以知识共享署名许可开放获取发表，文章处理费由作者或其资助方承担。