Impact Factor
3.87
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
5.58
352 total citations
h5-index
28
h5 depth signal
Cited share
93.8%
61 of 65
Total citations
352
Citation footprint
Metric signal
6.24
External metric anchor
Self-citation
2.0%
7 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United States
144
China
85
United Kingdom
53
Germany
34
France
33
Citing Fields of Research
Healthcare Policy
116
Nutrition & Dietetics
81
Environmental Sciences
59
Tropical Diseases
47
Health Education & Remote Healthcare
45
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
1,139
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
65
61 cited publications
Last 12 months
82
6.8 publications/month
Open access share
100.0%
82 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United States
144 citing publications
Leading citing field
Healthcare Policy
116 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
20 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v5n1, 2006-
v1n1,2002-
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Healthcare Policy
Environmental Sciences
Nutrition & Dietetics
Parasitology Studies
Tropical Diseases
AI & Machine Learning
Broad Categories
Epidemiology
Public Health
Nutrition & Dietetics
Tropical Diseases
Environmental Sciences
Healthcare Policy
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Parasitology Studies
MeSH Descriptors
Delivery of Health Care
Health Resources
Information Systems
Public Health
Topography, Medical
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
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02
DOI 10.1186/s12942-026-00505-2
Open DOI
Spatial-temporal clustering and high-risk area identification of dengue in Thailand: a 20-year national analysis using space-time scan statistics
Dengue remains a major public health challenge in Thailand, with substantial geographic variation. This study analyzed national dengue surveillance data (2005–2024; 1,640,368 cases) across five consecutive 4-year intervals to identify sp...
03
DOI 10.1186/s12942-026-00502-5
Open DOI
A GIS-based multi-objective optimization strategy for urban automated external defibrillator deployment
Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a critical urban health challenge due to persistently low survival rates and uneven access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Existing deployment strategies often rely o...
04
05
DOI 10.1186/s12942-026-00500-7
Open DOI
Reducing demographic inequality in emergency medical service: two bi-objective spatial optimization approaches
Background: Population demographic structures have become increasingly complex worldwide, posing new challenges for planning Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in ways to improve equality. Existing geographical studies have mainly focused ...
06
DOI 10.1186/s12942-026-00495-1
Open DOI
Short-term recovery of outdoor exercise after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions in Beijing: a GPS-based study of urban environmental differences
Background: Large infection waves can disrupt health-related physical activity even when outdoor spaces remain accessible. However, little is known about how outdoor activity recovers across different urban environments immediately after...
07
DOI 10.1186/s12942-026-00496-0
Open DOI
Exploring nonlinear associations between environmental and social media variables and active leisure travel
08
DOI 10.1186/s12942-026-00499-x
Open DOI
Smoothing-based approaches for detecting age-specific spatial clusters in small-area mortality data: a simulation evaluation
Background: With the increasing availability of high-resolution rate data such as age-specific mortality and disease incidence rates, it has become feasible to perform cluster detection stratified by age group. However, the accurate iden...
09
DOI 10.1186/s12942-026-00480-8
Open DOI
Air pollution-related health vulnerability index assessment: a multidimensional approach highlighting socio-spatial inequalities in urban Dakar
Background: Ambient air pollution is an increasingly pressing public health concern in West African cities. In the Dakar metropolitan area (Senegal), socio-spatial inequalities in health vulnerability related to air pollution remain poor...
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DOI 10.1186/s12942-026-00493-3
Open DOI
Spatiotemporal patterns of kidney transplantation, chronic kidney disease, and traumatic brain injury mortality in Brazil
Introduction: Kidney transplantation, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and traumatic brain injury (TBI) mortality exhibit substantial regional variation in Brazil, yet their spatiotemporal relationships remain poorly understood. Objective: ...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Source code title: IJHG.
Title from home page (viewed Feb. 7, 2003).
Individual articles are numbered with volume and article number on BioMed Central, e.g., 1:1; with volume, issue, and article number on PubMed Central, e.g., 1(1):1.
Mode of access: World Wide Web (HTML and PDF formats).