Frontiers in Public Health is a peer-reviewed journal aimed at the scientific community interested in the broad area of public health. This journal provides an international multidisciplinary forum with a holistic approach to public health issues, health and medicine, health and social policy, service aspects, developmental aspects, epidemiology, rehabilitation, family and social issues, quality of life and all other aspects of public health over the whole age spectrum.
Frontiers in Public Health covers all aspects of public health and human development in the form of review articles, original articles, case reports, short communications, letters to the editor and book reviews. Manuscripts will be reviewed from disciplines all over the world. The International Editorial Board is dedicated to producing a high quality scientific journal of interest to researchers and practitioners from many disciplines.
Frontiers in Public Health will publish high-quality articles encompassing the entire field of public health. Articles are peer-reviewed according to the Frontiers review guidelines, which evaluate manuscripts on objective editorial criteria. The journal will make use of the unique Frontiers platform for open-access publishing and research networking for scientists, which provides an equal opportunity to seek, share and create knowledge.
Frontiers in Public Health publishes articles on the most outstanding discoveries across the entire research spectrum of Public Health. The mission of Frontiers in Public Health is to bring all relevant Specialties in Public Health together on a single platform.
Frontiers in Public Health is composed of the following Specialty Sections :
Frontiers in Child Health and Human DevelopmentFrontiers in DiabetesFrontiers in EpidemiologyFrontiers in HIV and AIDSFrontiers in Immunotherapies and VaccinesFrontiers in Infectious DiseasesFrontiers in Public Health Education and Promotion
The Specialties of Frontiers in Public Health welcome the following
tier 1 article types: Book Review, Classification, Clinical Case Study, Clinical Trial, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge and Technology Report.
When submitting an article to Frontiers in Public Health, authors must submit the material directly to one of the Specialties. The articles are processed by the associate and review editors of the respective Specialty.
Original research articles published through the Specialties will be subjected to the
Frontiers Evaluation System after online publication. Authors of the
original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Public Health to write a prestigious Frontiers
Focused Review - a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "
democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article-level impact metrics of Original Research published in the Frontiers Specialties. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it in a wider context, and aim to address the wider audience across all of Public Health.