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Associate Editor Recruitment

Health Economics Review is currently recruiting for Associate Editors. Please follow the link below to find out more and apply.

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Collection open to submissions: The Pharmacoeconomics of Vaccines Advancing Cost-Effectiveness and Access in Global Immunization Strategies

We warmly welcome submissions to our Guest Edited Collection, The Pharmacoeconomics of Vaccines: Advancing Cost-Effectiveness and Access in Global Immunization Strategies, Guest Edited by Wenxi Tang. Open to submissions until 15 January 2026. 

Articles

  1. Authors: Ildiko Aliz Bradacs, László-István Bába, László Lorenzovici, Andreea Mihaela Precup, Szabolcs Farkas- Ráduly, Gyongyi Tar, Vasile Nastase, Lucia Georgeta Daina, Raul Bozu, Gyula Jozsef Nagy, Dimitrie Cristian Siriopol, Dorel Sandesc, Ovidiu Horea Bedreag, Florin Buicu, Gabriel Mircescu and Gener Ismail

Discount for Health Systems Global members

New Content ItemAll Health Systems Global members receive a 20% discount on Health Economics Review Article Processing Charges (APCs). To claim the discount, please contact the Secretariat at info@healthsystemsglobal.org to obtain the BMC journals' discount code.

Editors-in-Chief

Koustuv Dalal, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Lei Si, Western Sydney University, Australia

Aims and scope

Health Economics Review is an international high-quality journal covering all fields of Health Economics. A broad range of theoretical contributions, empirical studies and analyses of health policy with a health economic focus will be considered for publication. Its scope includes health economic evaluations, macro- and microeconomics of health care financing, health insurance and reimbursement as well as economics-related health systems, health services research and health policy analysis. Further research topics are the individual and institutional aspects of health care management and the growing importance of health economics and health systems in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
Systematic reviews, meta-analyses and scoping reviews, should be performed as described in the appropriate reporting standards and submitted as Research articles.  High-quality narrative reviews within the journal’s scope are welcomed.

Micro-costing in economic analyses of surgical interventions

StandardisCoins copyright Sarah (dichohecho) from Flickr © Sarah (dichohecho) from Flickration of terminology, and focusing on identifying and accurately costing key cost-drivers may improve the quality and value of micro-costing in health economics studies.  Read more...

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 2.7
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.8
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.218
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.800

    Speed 2024
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 7
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 292

    Usage 2024
    Downloads: 528,583
    Altmetric mentions: 357