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International Journal of Health Geographics

International Journal of Health Geographics is an interdisciplinary open access journal publishing internationally significant studies of geospatial information systems and science applications in health and healthcare for readers across healthcare disciplines globally.

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Subject Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Impact Factor 3.2
Quartile Q1
Open Access Type Open
ISSN 1476-072X
eISSN 1476-072X
Invitation Only No
Cost Range £2490.00 GBP / $3390.00 USD / €2890.00 EUR APC

Submission Instructions

International Journal of Health Geographics accepts the following article types. Click on an article type to view submission instructions.

Research

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. Cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published, explain any issues relating to journal policies, declare any potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved the submission, confirm the content has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable.
Abstract An abstract is required. Abstract must not exceed 350 words. Abstract must be structured. Abstract must include the headings Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, and articles reporting health care interventions on human participants must also include a Trial registration section with the registration number and date, using the words 'retrospectively registered' when applicable.
Manuscript Manuscript must include a title page, three to ten keywords, sections for Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and a Declarations section containing the required subheadings. Declarations must include the subheadings Ethics approval and consent to participate, Consent for publication, Availability of data and materials, Competing interests, Funding, Authors' contributions, and Acknowledgements, with 'Not applicable' used for any non-relevant section, and any use of a Large Language Model must be documented in the Methods section or a suitable alternative part of the manuscript.
References References must follow Vancouver reference style. Only published or in-press articles, clinical trial registration records, abstracts, and publicly available preprints may be cited, unpublished abstracts/data/personal communications must not appear in the reference list, journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE, and URLs must be numbered and listed in full in the references with site title, full URL, and access date.
Figures & Tables Figure titles and legends must be provided in the main manuscript while figures are uploaded separately, tables shorter than one page may be placed within the manuscript, and tables longer than one page may be placed at the end with callouts in the text. Multi-panel figures must be submitted as a single composite file, tables must be created using the word processor's table function rather than embedded as figures or spreadsheets, and footnotes must be used instead of endnotes.
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Review

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. Cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published, address any journal policy issues, declare any potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved submission, confirm the content has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable.
Abstract An abstract is required. Abstract must not exceed 350 words.
Manuscript Main text should contain the body of the article, may be divided into short informative subsections, must include a conclusions section stating the main conclusions and their importance or relevance, and review manuscripts must include a Declarations section. Review manuscripts must include three to ten keywords, define abbreviations at first use with a list of abbreviations if used, document Large Language Model use in the Methods or another suitable section if applicable, and include Declarations headings for Ethics approval and consent to participate, Consent for publication, Availability of data and materials, Competing interests, Funding, Authors' contributions, and Acknowledgements, with Authors' information optional and non-relevant subsections marked 'Not applicable'.
References References must follow Vancouver style. Published abstracts may be cited, web links and URLs must be numbered and included in the reference list in full with site title, URL, and access date, unpublished abstracts, unpublished data, and personal communications must not appear in the reference list, and journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE.
Figures & Tables Figure titles and legends must be included in the main manuscript rather than the graphic file, tables shorter than one page may be placed within the manuscript, and tables longer than one page may be placed at the end with in-text callouts. Figures must be numbered in order of first mention and multi-panel figures submitted as a single composite file, while tables must be numbered in sequence, created with the table function rather than embedded as figures or spreadsheet files, and footnotes must not contain figures or tables.
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Methodology

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. Cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published, address any issues relating to journal policies, declare any potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved submission, confirm the content has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable.
Abstract An abstract is required. Abstract must not exceed 350 words. Abstract must be structured. Abstract must include the headings Background, Results, and Conclusions.
Manuscript Manuscript should include Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and a Declarations section, with the Methods section placed either after the Background or after the Conclusions. Manuscript must include three to ten keywords and a Declarations section with the subheadings Ethics approval and consent to participate, Consent for publication, Availability of data and materials, Competing interests, Funding, Authors' contributions, and Acknowledgements, using 'Not applicable' for any irrelevant subsection and documenting any Large Language Model use in the Methods section or a suitable alternative section.
References References must follow Vancouver style. Only published articles, clinical trial registration records, and abstracts that are published, in press, or publicly available as e-prints or preprints may be cited, unpublished abstracts, unpublished data, and personal communications must not appear in the reference list, journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE, and web links must be numbered and included in the reference list in full with title, URL, and access date.
Figures & Tables Tables shorter than one page may be placed within the manuscript, tables longer than one page may be placed at the end of the document with callouts in the text, figure titles and legends must be provided in the main manuscript, and figures must be uploaded separately in the order first cited. Results of statistical analyses must be presented in the text or as tables and figures, multi-panel figures must be submitted as single composite files, and tables must be created using the word processor table function rather than embedded as figures or spreadsheet files.
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Recent Publications

Disparities of children’s obesogenic environments in Louisiana

Yutian Zeng, Fahui Wang, Senlin Chen

10.1186/s12942-026-00477-3
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Spatial non-stationarity in son preference: a district-level geographically weighted regression analysis of NFHS-5 in India

Soumen Barik, Dewaram A. Nagdeve, Anuj Singh, Mayank Singh

10.1186/s12942-026-00475-5
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Modeling hospital catchment areas in pediatric oncology using an empirically parameterized extended Huff-model

Jonas Kapitza, Thomas Wieland, Markus Metzler

10.1186/s12942-026-00478-2
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Spatial and telehealth accessibility to eating disorder treatment in the United States: evidence from registry and LLM-augmented data

Lingbo Liu, Chuying Huo, Ariel L. Beccia, Tracy K. Richmond, S. Bryn Austin

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Spatio-temporal epidemic forecasting with graph-based transformer

Mahmoud Ezzat, Youssef Mohamed Malek, Tamer AbdelKader, Nagwa Badr

10.1186/s12942-026-00476-4
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Is a cover letter required?

A cover letter is required. It should explain why the manuscript should be published in International Journal of Health Geographics, address any issues relating to journal policies, declare potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved the submission, confirm the manuscript has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable. Authors may also suggest preferred and non-preferred peer reviewers in the cover letter.

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What are the publication costs?

The article processing charge is £2490.00 GBP / $3390.00 USD / €2890.00 EUR for each accepted article, subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.

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Research Topics

Data-Driven Disease Surveillance Urban Transport and Accessibility Health disparities and outcomes Spatial and Panel Data Analysis COVID-19 epidemiological studies Mosquito-borne diseases and control Urban Green Space and Health Malaria Research and Control Air Quality and Health Impacts Geographic Information Systems Studies Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Global Maternal and Child Health Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Zoonotic diseases and public health Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference Older Adults Driving Studies Climate Change and Health Impacts Physical Activity and Health Viral Infections and Vectors Facility Location and Emergency Management Species Distribution and Climate Change Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment Environmental Justice and Health Disparities

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