Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The journal is an excellent resource for current and latest developments in the field of Public Health Informatics (PHI).

While public health is an information-intensive discipline it lags behind such fields as banking, manufacturing, transportation, and medicine, in the use of information and communication technologies in the delivery of services and resource management.
There is currently no journal dedicated to the dissemination of information about best PHI practices among public health practitioners, researchers, and educators. The journal will attempt to satisfy the growing need of a PHI knowledge translation portal and knowledge resource in both developed and developing countries.
In addition to peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, and technology reviews, the journal will also publish selected students' capstone projects, working papers by researchers, interviews and commentaries.

 

Section Policies

Original Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Review Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Review

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Technology Review

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Interviews and Commentaries

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Capstones and Working Papers

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Editorial

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Bibiliography

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Workshops and Conference Proceedings

Editors
  • John Canar
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Border Health/ Multi-jurisdictional Health

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Analytical Methods - Bayesian

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Cluster Detection

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Data Quality and Underlying Patterns in Data Streams

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Disease Surveillance Methods

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Electronic Health Records

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Influenza Surveillance Methods - Evaluation and Practice

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Influenza Surveillance Methods - Research

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Information Sharing & Partnerships

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Meaningful Use

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Novel Uses of Syndromic Data

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Social and News Media

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Surveillance during Mass Gatherings and Outbreaks

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Syndrome Development & Validation & Natural Language Processing

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: System Descriptions & Evaluations

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: System Resources and Assessment

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Temporal or Spatio-temporal

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Oral Presentations: Weather, Environmental, and Vector-borne

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Panels

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Posters

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Roundtables

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

System Showcase Demonstrations

Editors
  • Edward Mensah
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Unbiased, independent, critical assessment is an intrinsic part of all scholarly work, including scientific investigation. Peer reviewers are experts in their field who are not part of the editorial staff and thus are an important extension of the scientific process.

Manuscripts will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Peer reviewers are asked to submit their review within four (4) weeks. Fast-tracking will be considered for some papers at the authors request.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Frequency

OJPHI releases accepted papers online immediately after completion of peer-review and editorial processes. The journal will be published three times a year in April, August, and December.



Online Journal of Public Health Informatics * ISSN 1947-2579 * http://ojphi.org