Q1 Health Policy & Services Journals

Implementation Science is a pioneering, highly-accessed journal dedicated to publishing evidence regarding methods for promoting the uptake of consolidated research findings into routine healthcare practice and health policy. It provides a multidisciplinary pl...

JAMA Health Forum is a JAMA Network journal publishing health policy and health care research and opinion content, including Original Investigations, Research Letters, Viewpoints, Editorials, and JAMA Forum articles. Articles are labeled open access.

Health Affairs Publishing delivers rigorous, nonpartisan research and analysis to improve health and health care. For over 40 years, it has turned complex health policy research into clear insights that guide decision makers toward effective solutions. Health...

BMJ Quality & Safety is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science of improvement across healthcare service and provision. The journal encourages research and debate about improving the quality and safety of healthcare and serves clinicians, r...

Value in Health is ISPOR’s health economics and outcomes research journal. It publishes papers that advance the science of HEOR globally, including new methods, best practice guidelines, innovative research, and ISPOR Good Practices Reports intended to influen...

International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal focused on health policy and management research. It serves as an international and interdisciplinary forum spanning health management, health policy, and...

PharmacoEconomics is a peer-reviewed journal focused on the practical application of health economics and outcomes research to optimize healthcare resource allocation. It emphasizes clear communication of complex pharmacoeconomic issues across healthcare inter...

Human Resources for Health disseminates policy-oriented research on the information, planning, production, management and governance of human resources for health. Published in collaboration with the World Health Organization, the journal has a global perspect...

The Milbank Quarterly is a multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy that has been continuously published since 1923. It publishes original research, synthesis, policy analysis, and commentary focused on health, health equity, and health...

Journal of Healthcare Leadership is an international open access journal focusing on leadership for healthcare professions. It publishes research on healthcare policy and law, healthcare systems and delivery services, interactions between healthcare and societ...

Health Policy and Technology is the official journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and focuses on past, present and future health policy and the role of technology in clinical and non-clinical national and international health environments. The jo...

Journal of Health Economics publishes economic analyses that deepen understanding of the value, production, or distribution of health or healthcare. It seeks original research that advances knowledge in health economics or informs health policy, covering topic...

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes is an open access, peer-reviewed journal considering original manuscripts on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL). Articles focus specifically on the assessment of medical and psychosocial interventions, including psychome...

Health Policy publishes interdisciplinary research and reviews with clear policy implications for an international audience, focusing on health systems, health policies, and health reforms in high-income countries, primarily outside the US. It aims to strength...

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy publishes practical health economic articles relevant to current healthcare issues. It is a resource for decision makers and health economists striving to optimise people’s health. The journal operates as a hybrid jou...

DIGITAL HEALTH is a peer reviewed open access journal focused on healthcare in the digital world, bridging advances in informatics and technology across medicine, health, and all aspects of health care.

Disability and Health Journal is the official journal of the American Association on Health and Disability. It is a scientific, scholarly, multidisciplinary journal that publishes original contributions advancing knowledge in disability and health, including g...

Health Economics, Policy and Law is an international journal that publishes scholarship on health and social care policy issues at the intersection of economics, politics, and law. It serves academics, policy makers, and practitioners, publishes both theoretic...

Health Economics Review is an open-access journal covering all aspects of health economics from a micro- to macro-scale. It publishes theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and analyses of health policy with a health economic focus, including health car...

Implementation Science Communications is an official companion journal to Implementation Science that publishes research to foster the uptake of evidence based practices and policies affecting health care delivery and health outcomes in clinical, organizationa...

Health Research Policy and Systems is published in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The journal has an international approach that specifically includes low- and middle-income countries. It explores the role of evidence-based health policy and...

Psychiatric Services is a journal of the American Psychiatric Association with ISSN (print) 1075-2730 and ISSN (online) 1557-9700. The journal reports an Impact Factor of 3.2 and Total Citations of 12,317 in the 2024 Journal Citation Reports.

Health Sociology Review is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness and medicine. It is published three times per year and prioritises original research papers, pap...

The European Journal of Health Economics publishes rigorous research on the economic dimensions of health care systems in low-, middle-, and high-income countries. Contributions advance knowledge in health economics across insurance, care providers, prevention...