Description: Health Affairs is the leading journal of health policy
thought and research. All papers are peer-reviewed, and the
acceptance rate is 10–15 percent. Published since 1981, Health
Affairs is nonpartisan and presents a wide range of timely
research and commentary on health issues of current concern
in both domestic and international spheres.
“For more than 20 years, Health Affairs has been
a must-read for anyone with a serious interest
in medicine, health care, and health care policy,” (Washington
Post, 11 January 2004).
Frequency: Number of issues per year is six with additional
supplements. Online-only peer-reviewed papers of a timely nature are published weekly on average as Web Exclusives.
Pages: Pages published in 2005 total 2,388,
including Supplements. Three Supplements were published in 2005.
Online Availability: Every article Health
Affairs has ever published is available online at www.healthaffairs.org.
The 25-year archive is fully searchable. All back content is
free access after three years. Selected content is free access
at time of posting, including Editor’s Choice articles,
Web Exclusives, Narrative Matters, Grants and Outcomes, UpDate
Publications, Book Reviews, and Letters. Health Affairs is
an original signatory to the Washington, D.C. Principles
for Free Access to Science.Health Affairs’ Web
site is maintained in conjunction with Stanford University’s
HighWire Press.
Authors: Health Affairs authors include top scholars, policymakers, and health
care industry leaders. We also welcome submissions from those who do not
typically write for peer-reviewed journals.
Submissions: Health Affairs receives over 1,000 manuscripts annually.
Each paper is reviewed by the editors for timeliness and relevance
to the journal’s objectives. About half of these submissions
are selected for external review. For papers that are not selected
for external review, the journal notifies authors within two to three
weeks of submission. For papers that are selected for external review,
authors can expect to wait about two to three months from the date
of submission until notification of the journal’s decision.
For papers that are selected for revision, the length of time between
the revision request and publication will vary widely (from six weeks
to several months) depending on the extent of revision required,
the need for additional review and revision, whether the paper will
be published in a bound volume or on our Web site, etc. Our acceptance
rate for unsolicited papers is currently 10-15 percent. For information
on how to submit a paper, go to http://www.healthaffairs.org/1410_for_authors.php.
Circulation: 11,000 paid domestic and international subscribers.
Readership: Three readers per issue copy (Beta Research Corp. independent survey) or 33,000 readers per printed copy. For subscription
prices and ordering procedure see Subscribe.
Web Site Traffic: Page views per month average 1,000,000 as
of January 2006. Annual page views total 12 million. Number of user
sessions average 3 million per year. Most-read papers reach 50,000-80,000 pageviews each.
Impact Factor: 3.369 (2004 Thompson ISI). Health Affairs consistently ranks in the top of its categories
(Health Policy; Health Care Science and Services) in both the Science Edition
and Social Science Edition of the Journal Citation Report.
Press Citations: Health Affairs is frequently
cited by national media, including theWashington Post, New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, network television and radio,
and National Public Radio. The January 12, 2005 Washington Post cited Health
Affairs as “the bible of health policy.”
Policy Reach: Health Affairs is health policymakers’ most frequently
read journal and is consulted by 55% of staff members on U.S. congressional
committees of jurisdiction in health—ahead of JAMA and the New England
Journal of Medicine, which are read by 17% and 10% of staff members, respectively
(2003 independent survey by the Center for Studying Health System Change).
Policy Impact: Health Affairs' articles were cited 18 times in congressional testimony between January and July 2006, more than any other policy journal.
Readership: Health Affairs readers include government health leaders (U.S.
federal, state, local, and international); decisionmakers at hospitals, insurance
companies, and other health care industries; researchers and academics in economics,
health services research, law, public health, political science, sociology,
health administration, medicine, and nursing, among other fields; health policy
analysts and advocates.
Topics Covered: Health Affairs is a multidisciplinary
journal covering a wide range of health issues. Topics covered include: access
to care, health spending, quality, Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drug coverage
and costs, physician practice, nursing trends, mental health, malpractice and
health law, insurance reform, hospitals, global health, and disparities in
health care, among others. To view a complete list of topics, see Topic
Collections.
Founding Editor: John K. Iglehart, national correspondent for the New England
Journal of Medicine; member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences;
former editor, National Journal. Executive Editor: Donald E. Metz.
Inside the Journal: Health Affairs is divided into the following major sections:
• Feature articles: New proposals, original research, and analysis
of timely health policy issues
• Commentary: Opinions and proposals for change·
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Interviews:
Conversations with leaders in government and the private sector
• Narrative Matters: Personal stories about the health care system
that highlight policy issues of concern
• Health Tracking: New research on trends and health care markets
• DataWatch: Data-driven analysis and original research
• GrantWatch: A review of recently awarded foundation grants and grant outcomes,
with regular essays or special reports about health philanthropy
• UpDate: News from the states or other countries.
• Book Reviews
• Letters to the Editor: Lively discussion of issues raised in Health
Affairs papers
Thematic Issues: Health Affairs publishes
both thematic and “variety” issues
every year. Thematic issues (up to five per year) are devoted to
in-depth exploration of a single topic.
Web Exclusives: Online-only papers are published weekly, on average, as Web
Exclusives at www.healthaffairs.org.
An abstract for each Web Exclusive paper is published in the first
bound volume that follows the paper’s publication on the
Web. Web Exclusive papers are subject to the same peer review,
evaluation, and editing as any other paper published by Health Affairs.
They are indexed in the literature at time of posting and annually
with the journal’s
yearly index, by author and by subject.
Search the Health Affairs Archives Indexes/Abstracts: Health Affairs is indexed and/or
abstracted in Current Contents/Health Services Administration and Social and
Behavioral Sciences; EBSCOhost; Health Planning and Administration Database;
Index Medicus; International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; MEDLINE; Lexis-Nexis;
OCLC; ProQuest; the Sciences and Social Sciences Citation
Index; and SwetsWise Online Content.
Subscriptions: Health Affairs is available by
subscription to individuals and site-wide to libraries and institutions. See
Subscribe for more information.
ISSN: 0278-2715 Electronic ISSN: 1544-5208
Federal Tax I.D. Number : 53-0242962
Publisher: Health Affairs is published and copyrighted
by Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
Updated August 16, 2006. |