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Discover Public Health, formerly Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to public health.

Publication costs for Discover Public Health are covered by Springer Nature until 1 January 2025. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication before that date will not pay an article-processing charge. Find out more in our submission guidelines. Current charge: £0/$0/€0  Standard charge: £1090.00/$1590.00/€1190.00 

  • Considers articles from a broad range of public health disciplines.
  • Topics include epidemiology, occupational health, disease prevention, health policy, and more.     
  • A Discover journal focused on speed of submission and review, service, and integrity.
Submission to first decision (median)
6 days
Downloads
368,726 (2023)

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  • Writing your manuscript: interactive author tutorials

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  • Introducing In Review

    In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Public Health. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:

    • Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review 
    • Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level 
    • Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.


    See the full range of benefits of In Review and how to opt-in

    See what the In Review platform looks like 


  • Topical Collections

    The journal publishes guest-edited Topical Collections on emerging hot topics of relevance to all aspects of public health. Our Topical Collections allow readers to quickly identify research on subject areas of particular interest to them.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
3005-0774
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. Baidu
  3. CAB Abstracts
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
  8. DOAJ
  9. Dimensions
  10. EBSCO
  11. EMBASE
  12. Emerging Sources Citation Index
  13. Gale
  14. Google Scholar
  15. Naver
  16. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  17. Portico
  18. ProQuest
  19. Reaxys
  20. SCImago
  21. SCOPUS
  22. Semantic Scholar
  23. TD Net Discovery Service
  24. UGC-CARE List (India)
  25. Wanfang
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