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Editorial
Welcome to this edition of Health Policy and Planning, in our 21st year of publication. Health Policy and Planning's aim is to improve the design and implementation of health policies in low- and middle-income countries through providing a forum for publishing high quality research and original ideas, for an audience of policy and public health researchers and practitioners. Health Policy and Planning is published six times a year (2 monthly).Specific objectives are to:
- Attract high quality research papers, reviews and debates on topics relevant to health policies in low- and middle-income countries;
- Ensure wide geographical coverage of papers including coverage of the poorest countries and those in transition;
- Encourage and support researchers from low- and middle-income countries to publish in HPP;
- Ensure papers reflect a broad range of disciplines, methodologies and topics;
- Ensure that papers are clearly explained and accessible to readers from the range of disciplines used to analyze health policies; and
- Provide a fair, supportive and high quality peer review process.
Please see our Instructions to authors (printed at the back of the journal and available online) before submitting a paper. Authors should pay close attention to the factors that will increase likelihood of acceptance. As well as the high overall quality required for publication in an international journal, authors should address HPP's readership: national and international policy makers, practitioners, academics and general readers with a particular interest in health policy issues and debates. Manuscripts that fail to set out the international debates to which the paper contributes, and to draw out policy lessons and conclusions, are more likely to be rejected, returned to the authors for redrafting prior to being reviewed, or undergo a slower acceptance process. In addition, economists should note that papers accepted for publication in HPP will consider the broad policy implications of an economic analysis rather than focusing primarily on the methodological or theoretical aspects of the study. Public health specialists writing about a specific health problem or service should discuss the relevance of the analysis for the broader health system. Those submitting health policy analyses should draw on relevant bodies of theory in their analysis, or justify why they have not, rather than only presenting a narrative based on empirical data.
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Audit of submissions, 2005 |
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 Top Audit of submissions, 2005 |
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During 2005, 237 unsolicited papers were submitted. By first author, percentages for papers from Asia and from Western Europe were roughly the same at 28% and 27% of submissions, respectively. Percentages for Africa and North America were also similar, at 18% and 16%, respectively. Considerably fewer came from Latin America (5%), Eastern Europe (4%), the Middle East (3%) and Australasia (1%).
On geographical coverage, the majority were on Asia (36%) and Africa (27%), with fewer on North America/Western Europe (8%), Latin America (7%), Eastern Europe (6%), the Middle East (3%) and Australasia (>1%). General papers formed 13% of submissions.
By the end of February 2006, 8% had been accepted, 65% rejected, 15% were with authors for revision and 13% were pending (original submissions with reviewers, resubmissions received/with reviewers). The mean length of time from submission to decision (including time for peer review for those papers not rejected outright) was 79 days. Mean length of time between submission and acceptance (including time for revisions) was 256 days. Mean length of time between acceptance and publication was 126 days, but 80 days for Advanced Access publication online.
We would like to thank all those who kindly reviewed papers for us in 2005:
Taghreed Adam, Sam Adjei, Afsar Akal, Jane Alaii, Fernando Althabe, Maia Ambegaokar, Syed Saad Andaleeb, Gustavo Angeles, Ann Ashworth, Ian Askew, Chris Atim, Alberta Bacci, Dina Balabanova, Lesley Bamford, Nick Banatvala, Sarah Barber, Mauricio Barreto, Bob Baulch, Jose Belizan, Mrigesh Bhatia, Leon Bijlmakers, David Bishai, David Bloom, Claude Bodart, Lennart Bogg, Ginny Bond, Chris Bonnell, Sekhar Bonu, Josephine Borghi, Thomas Bossert, Ivana Bozicevic, Elizabeth Breeze, John Bridges, Derick Brinkerhoff, Kenneth Brown, Jane Bruce, Ruairi Brugha, Jennifer Bryce, James Buchan, Kent Buse, Joanna Busza, John Cairns, Mandisa Cakwe, Beverley Chalmers, Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Dov Chernichovsky, Raquel Child, Daniel Chisholm, Mickey Chopra, Somsak Chunharas, Mariam Claeson, Malcolm Clark, Susan Cleary, Joanna Coast, Joao Costa, Emma Crewe, Bart Criel, Antonio J L A da Cunha, Mario Dal Poz, Alan Dangour, Norman Daniels, Kirill Danishevski, Ian Darnton-Hill, Jocelyn de Jong, Tania Dmytraczenko, Jane Doherty, David Dror, David Durrheim, Joan Dzenowagis, Bjorn Ekman, Mike English, David Evans, Jane Falkingham, Alan Flisher, Birger Forsberg, Robert Fryatt, Paul Garner, Wenzel Geissler, Nancy Gerein, Christian Gericke, Lucy Gilson, Jane Goudge, Cheri Grace, Alison Grant, Emmanuel Guindon, Lorna Guinness, Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Davidson Gwatkin, Hilbrand Haak, John Hall, Masahiro Hashizume, Susanna Hausmann-Muela, Kris Heggenhougen, Hans Hogerzeil, Charles Hongoro, Susan Horton, Andrew Hutchings, Sharon Huttly, Guy Hutton, Rachel Jenkins, Anders Jeppsson, Johannes Jütting, Vinay Kamat, Warren Kaplan, Betty Kirkwood, Felicia Knaul, Eline Korenromp, Adam Kozierkiewiecz, Soonman Kwon, Anne LaFond, Sally Lake, Claudio Lanata, Jack Langenbrunner, Joy Lawn, Kelley Lee, Christian Lengeler, Ruth Levine, James Levinson, Maureen Lewis, Sonia Lewycka, Supon Limwattananon, Magnus Lindelow, Brita Lokrantz Bernitz, Knut Lönnorth, Maureen Mackintosh, Dermot Maher, Ahmed Makemba, Elliott Marseille, Tim Martineau, Charles Mayombana, Brendon McElroy, Barbara McPake, Qingyue Meng, Catherine Michaud, Anne Mills, Paulina Miskiewizs, Dominic Montagu, Kath Moser, Paula Munderi, V R Muraleedharan, Susan Murray, Nancy Nachbar, Gustavo Nigenda, Sam Agatre Okuonzi, Obinna Onwujekwe, Piroska Östlin, Fred Paccaud, Nastasha Palmer, Vikram Patel, Vinod Paul, David Peters, John Porter, Christopher Potter, Jaime Puig-Junoy, Jonathan Quick, Aryanti Radyowijati, Kent Ranson, Abdur Razzaque, Bernd Rechel, Michael Reich, Suzanne Ross, Steven Russell, Richard Saltman, Helle Samuelsen, Yevgeny Samyshkin, David Sanders, William Savedoff, Pia Schneider, Brad Schwartz, Jeremy Seekings, Innocent Semali, Philip Setel, Dinesh Sethi, Kabir Sheikh, Amir Shmueli, Rima Shretta, Edina Sinanovic, Kirk Smith, Richard Smith, Egbert Sondorp, Robert Steinglass, Richard Steketee, Pieter Streefland, Chutima Suraratdecha, Marcel Tanner, Michael Thiede, Elena Tkatchenko, Rachel Tolhurst, Birna Trap, James Trostle, Amy Ong Tsui, Vivian Valdmanis, Nicole Valentine, Wim van Damme, Jaap Veen, Nina Veenstra, Elizabeth Warnick, Hugh Waters, Charlotte Watts, Jayne Webster, Alan Whiteside, James Whitworth, Brent Wolff, Ke Xu.
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