BMJ Public Health

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

BMJ Public Health is published by BMJ as an open access journal (ISSN 2753-4294). The journal lists no article processing charge. Typical time to publication is 40 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 17. Primary field: Medicine. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

Not published

Open access, but no fee is listed in our sources. Ask the journal.

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Time to publication

40 wks

Slower than average; plan your timeline accordingly.

h-index

17

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

2.0

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

We could not find a published fee for BMJ Public Health.

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Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

8 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.Confirmed
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.Confirmed
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer reviewConfirmed
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.Confirmed
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.Confirmed
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.Confirmed
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.Confirmed
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.Confirmed

Scope

The subjects BMJ Public Health publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Global Maternal and Child HealthHealth disparities and outcomesVaccine Coverage and HesitancyAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthCOVID-19 and Mental HealthChild Nutrition and Water AccessHIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsObesity, Physical Activity, DietMigration, Health and TraumaSmoking Behavior and Cessation

Publication record

Indexed articles1,385
Total citations3,111
i10-index60
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2023
All ISSNs2753-4294

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.