BiomedicalPublications

Health Policy and Planning

Oxford University Press·United Kingdom·ISSN 0268-1080

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

Health Policy and Planning is published by Oxford University Press as an open access journal (ISSN 0268-1080). The list article processing charge is $3,195. Typical time to publication is 36 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 159. 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

$3,195

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · Journal fee page

Time to publication

36 wks

Slower than average; plan your timeline accordingly.

h-index

159

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.5

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Health Policy and Planning is listed at $3,195. The publisher also lists 2,423 GBP. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

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What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Health Policy and Planning, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 1% since 2021, from $3,149 to $3,195.

$0$1.6k$3.2k2021: $3,14920212022: $2,62020222023: $2,73420232024: $3,22120242025: $3,1952025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelDouble anonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND
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.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredDouble anonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Health Policy and Planning publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Global Maternal and Child HealthHealthcare Systems and ReformsGlobal Health Care IssuesHealthcare Policy and ManagementChild Nutrition and Water AccessGlobal Public Health Policies and EpidemiologyPrimary Care and Health OutcomesPoverty, Education, and Child WelfareHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeHIV/AIDS Impact and Responses

Publication record

Indexed articles3,736
Total citations150,065
i10-index2,365
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2024
All ISSNs0268-1080, 1460-2237

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.