Annual Review of Public Health

The Annual Review of Public Health is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about public health, including epidemiology, biostatistics, occupational safety and health, environmental health, and health policy. In its 40-year history, it has had three editors: Lester Breslow, Gilbert S. Omenn, and Jonathan E. Fielding.

Annual Review of Public Health
DisciplinePublic health
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJonathan E. Fielding
Publication details
History1980–present, 41 years old
Publisher
Annual Reviews (United States)
FrequencyAnnually
16.463[1] (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Annu. Rev. Public Health
Indexing
CODENAREHDT
ISSN0163-7525 (print)
1545-2093 (web)
OCLC no.874372619
Links

History

The Annual Review of Public Health published its first volume in 1980, in response to a second American "public health revolution". The preface of the first volume noted the shift towards chronic health conditions like cancer and heart disease. It also noted the rising cost of diagnosing and treating disease in the US, which had doubled from 1950 to 1975.[2] The first editor was American physician Lester Breslow.[3] Initially, the journal was organized into five subtopics, age and disease-specific public health, behavioral aspects of health, environmental health, epidemiology/biostatistics, and health services. In Volume 13 (1992), a sixth subtopic was added: public health practice.[4] The five subtopics in Volume 15 (1994) were epidemiology and biostatistics, public health practice, behavioral aspects of health, health services, and environmental and occupational health.[5] In April 2017, Annual Reviews made the Annual Review of Public Health open access as part of a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. By May 2019, usage of the journal had increased eight-fold relative to 2016 to about 200,000 downloads monthly. For comparison, the titles for clinical psychology and medicine that maintained gated access showed no change in usage. Additionally, the audience for the journal increased from 1,100 institutions in 57 countries (2016) to 7,220 institutions in 137 countries (2018).[6] Based on the success of the Annual Review of Public Health, Annual Reviews created "Subscribe to Open" (S2O) publishing model to convert some of its other journals from gated to open access on a year-to-year basis.[7]

Editorial processes

The Annual Review of Public Health is helmed by the editor. The editor is assisted by the editorial committee, which includes associate editors, regular members, and occasionally guest editors. Guest members participate at the invitation of the editor, and serve terms of one year. All other members of the editorial committee are appointed by the Annual Reviews board of directors and serve five-year terms. The editorial committee determines which topics should be included in each volume and solicits reviews from qualified authors.[8] Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted. Peer review of accepted manuscripts is undertaken by the editorial committee.[9]

List of editors

Current editorial committee

As of 2021, the editorial committee consists of the editor and the following members:[11]

References
  1. "Journal Impact Factors". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  2. "Preface by the Editors". Annual Review of Public Health. 1. 1980. doi:10.1146/annurev.pu.1.010180.100001.
  3. Omenn, Gilbert S. (1990). "Preface by the Gilbert S. Omenn". Annual Review of Public Health. 11. doi:10.1146/annurev.pu.11.010190.100001.
  4. "Preface by the Editorial Committee". Annual Review of Public Health. 13. 1992. doi:10.1146/annurev.pu.13.010192.100001.
  5. Omenn, Gilbert S.; Fielding, Jonathan E.; Lave, Lester B. (1994). "Preface". Annual Review of Public Health. 15. doi:10.1146/annurev.pu.15.010194.100001.
  6. Crow, Raym; Gallagher, Richard; Naim, Kamran (2020). "Subscribe to Open: A practical approach for converting subscription journals to open access". Learned Publishing. 33 (2): 181–185. doi:10.1002/leap.1262.
  7. Wise, Alicia; Estelle, Lorraine (2019). "Society Publishers Accelerating Open Access and Plan S - Final Project Report": 23–24. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.9805007.v1. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. "Editorial Principles and Policies". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  9. "Information for Unsolicited Authors and Reviewers". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  10. Omenn, Gilbert S. (1996). "Preface". Annual Review of Public Health. 17. doi:10.1146/annurev.pu.17.031704.100001.
  11. "Annual Review of Public Health, Current Editorial Committe". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
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