Globalization and Health: developing the journal to advance the field
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EDITORIAL
Open Access
Globalization and Health: developing the journal to advance the field Greg Martin1*, Malcolm MacLachlan1,2,3,4, Ronald Labonté5, Fiona Larkan1,6, Frédérique Vallières1,2 and Niamh Bergin7
Abstract Founded in 2005, Globalization and Health was the first open access global health journal. The journal has since expanded the field, and its influence, with the number of downloaded papers rising 17-fold, to over 4 million. Its ground-breaking papers, leading authors -including a Nobel Prize winner- and an impact factor of 2.25 place it among the top global health journals in the world. To mark the ten years since the journal’s founding, we, members of the current editorial board, undertook a review of the journal’s progress over the last decade. Through the application of an inductive thematic analysis, we systematically identified themes of research published in the journal from 2005 to 2014. We identify key areas the journal has promoted and consider these in the context of an existing framework, identify current gaps in global health research and highlight areas we, as a journal, would like to see strengthened.
Background Published in 2005 as the first open-access global health journal, Globalization and Health offers an international platform for quality original research, knowledge sharing, and debate on the topic of globalisation and its effects on health. The journal assumes a cross-sector and multidisciplinary approach, inviting scholarship from clinical, biological, social, political, economic, environmental and information sciences. It caters to a wide audience including: academics, policy-makers, health care practitioners, and public health professionals. After a decade of publishing, the journal has become a trusted source of high quality peer reviewed papers. As of 2015, article publications have more than quadrupled from 18 papers published in 2005, to 81 papers in 2014 and we currently publish more than a third of all submissions. Over 4 million papers have been downloaded, resulting in more than 2300 individual citations. We continue to attract authors from across the world and from diverse backgrounds, including academics, policy makers, humanitarian and development aid workers, Ministers of Health, students and a Nobel Prize winner. Globalization and Health is rapidly climbing the ranks
of public health related journals in the world, and our impact factor rising from 1.485 in 2012 to 2.25 in 2014. We are particularly proud of the international reach of our papers and of our free-to-publish provision for authors from low-income countries. The journal has covered the major global health events of the last fifteen years, including the SARS virus outbreak of the early 2000s, the politics of the tobacco industry, the ‘Westernization’ of lifestyle behaviours and its associated health implications, access to essential medicines, and the most recent Ebola crisis in West Africa: all from the perspective both of high-income and low and middle-income countries. To mark our tenth year as
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