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Aims and scope

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal primarily focused on original research related to the measurement and valuation of HRQoL and wider measures of health, including quality of life, wellbeing, and carer-related outcomes, provided the central focus is on health. We welcome contributions in the following areas:

  1. Articles creating or applying theoretical frameworks to develop, validate, or use instruments specific to HRQoL, wellbeing, or carer-related outcomes;
  2. Submissions evaluating the psychometric properties of new or existing instruments measuring HRQoL, well-being, or carer-related outcomes (using any applicable method, such as item-response theory, structural equation modelling, etc.);
  3. Articles describing theoretical or applied valuation research using existing preference elicitation exercises (e.g., time trade-off, discrete choice experiment) to explore societal and patient preferences or to estimate value sets;
  4. Development of new empirical approaches to validating health, wellbeing, or carer-related outcomes;
  5. Hypothesis-based or theory-driven primary or secondary epidemiological research containing HRQoL, wellbeing, or carer-related outcomes (measured using generic or disease-specific HRQoL/wellbeing instruments), but not research exclusively measuring clinical outcomes such as disease incidence or prevalence, mortality, etc.; and
  6. Systematic reviews or meta-analyses of studies containing HRQoL, wellbeing, or carer-related outcomes, given the same restrictions outlined in point 5 above.

Please note the following important items:

1.    To encourage the submission of high-quality work, all manuscripts submitted to the journal should conform to relevant reporting guidelines (e.g., PRISMA, MOOSE, STROBE, CONSORT, SRQR, COREQ);

2.    Systematic reviews and meta-analyses must be pre-registered or preceded by a published protocol;

3.    Health and Quality of Life Outcomes will immediately reject study protocols or manuscripts focused exclusively on providing univariate or bivariate descriptions of data;

4.    Manuscripts whose intent is to validate the use of existing HRQoL or well-being instruments in specific contexts (e.g., linguistic, geographical, or cultural groups, new populations) will be considered on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the Co-Editors-in-Chief (CEiCs) – please contact Drs. Oremus and Rencz before submitting a manuscript, noting the journal will give preference to papers employing advanced analytical methods in the validation exercise (e.g., item response theory, structural equation modeling);

5.    The CEiCs welcome suggestions for special collections and thematic issues that fall within the journal’s aims and scope – please contact Drs. Oremus and Rencz for more information; and

The CEiCs welcome opportunities to publish conference proceedings from scientific meetings that fall within the journal’s aims and scope – please contact Drs. Oremus and Rencz for more information.

New Content ItemWe are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes in 2024 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Springer Nature supports the SDGs through a dedicated SDG Programme and is signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact.

Open access

All articles published by Health and Quality of Life Outcomes are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here

As authors of articles published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article according to the licence terms

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BMC can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Article processing charges (APC)

Authors who publish open access in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes are required to pay an article processing charge (APC). The APC price will be determined from the date on which the article is accepted for publication.

The current APC, subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable, is: £2390.00/$3190.00/€2690.00

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Open access funding

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Springer Nature offers APC waivers and discounts for articles published in our fully open access journals whose corresponding authors are based in the world’s lowest income countries (see our APC waivers and discounts policy for further information). Requests for APC waivers and discounts from other authors will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and may be granted in cases of financial need (see our open access policies for journals for more information). All applications for discretionary APC waivers and discounts should be made at the point of manuscript submission; requests made during the review process or after acceptance are unable to be considered.

Indexing services

All articles published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes are included in:

  • Cinahl
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  • Medscape
  • OAIster
  • PsycINFO
  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central
  • Science Citation Index
  • Science Citation Index Expanded
  • SCImago
  • Scopus
  • SOCOLAR
  • Zetoc

The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous.

The benefit of single-blind peer review is that it is the traditional model of peer review that many reviewers are comfortable with, and it facilitates a dispassionate critique of a manuscript.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to Health and Quality of Life Outcomes should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Appeals and complaints

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies.

Citing articles in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Articles in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. Health Qual Life Outcomes [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2009, 1:115.

refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.

Benefits of publishing with BMC

High visibility

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. 

Speed of publication

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF.

Flexibility

Online publication in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on Health and Quality of Life Outcomes’s pages and on the BMC homepage.

In addition, articles published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BMC is available here.

Copyright

As an author of an article published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes you retain the copyright of your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work. For further information, see our guide to licensing, copyright and author rights

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact
    Journal Impact Factor: 3.4 (2024)   
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.3 (2024)  
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.557 (2024)    
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.265 (2024)

    Speed 
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 9
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 155

    Usage 2024
    Downloads: 2,859,346
    Altmetric mentions: 443