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Launched to mark Pride Month, our new Guest Edited collection welcomes research into how inclusive public health programs can tackle LGBTQ+ health inequalities and address health issues seen in this population. Open to submissions until March 2022.
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Professor Sheryl L Hendriks is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Public Health, Guest Editor of the journal’s Food Security and Food Systems Collection and Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In the first of a series of blogs, Prof Hendriks tells us how her work aligns with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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LGBTQ+ Health
Guest Editors: Monica Malta, Wangnan Cao
Submissions deadline: 31st March 2022
Air pollution and health
Guest Editors: Hualiang Lin, Om Kurmi, Bing-Fang Hwang
The collection will remain open until further notice
Food security and food systems
Guest Editors: Sherly Hendriks, Hirotsugu Aiga, Tarra Penney
The collection will remain open until further notice
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Data are the cornerstones to transparency and reproducibility of research. At the BMC Series, we offer different article types to help you share your data. Explore some of our open access data publications in this focus issue and browse through the additional reading and resources to learn more about this topic.
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In celebration of World Environment Day on the 5th June, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on Water and Sanitation. We have collated open-access content from across our journals to highlight research into clean water, investigating links between water and health and our overall relationship with water.
Speed
85 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
51 days to first decision for all manuscripts
198 days from submission to acceptance
19 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
3.295 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.003 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.656 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.230 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
14,172,714 downloads
10,429 Altmetric mentions
