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Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics (GHEG) is an exciting new development from Cambridge Journals. It offers open access publication combined with peer-review standards set by an international editorial board of the highest calibre, all backed by Cambridge University Press and our commitment to quality.
All submitted articles will be peer-reviewed and will benefit from the full functionality associated with Cambridge Journals publishing: copyediting, typesetting, reference linking, usage statistics, etc. The decision on whether to accept articles for publication will be made solely by the Editors, in complete independence from Cambridge University Press.
All published papers will be freely accessible online to all in perpetuity. For articles submitted for publication during 2016 and 2017, Cambridge University Press will waive the article processing charges (APC) for all authors.
Authors will retain copyright of published papers.
GHEG aims to publish research that increases our understanding of human health and disease worldwide. Spanning both non-communicable and communicable diseases, GHEG will provide a platform to integrate population science, genomics and related technological advances in the global health context. Topics relevant to GHEG will include studies, methods and resources relating to disease aetiology, variation in disease susceptibility, drug resistance and surveillance, pharmacogenomics and stratified medicine, as well as the challenges of implementing new developments into clinical practice and the community, globally. We recognise the importance of the broader cultural, ethical and historical aspects of global health and populations and welcome contributions in these areas.
The field of global health, epidemiology and genomics is an emerging field which GHEG will facilitate by providing a forum for global discourse and the publication of new perspectives and paradigms. In this context, GHEG invites contributions from a range of disciplines and stakeholders, and covering a variety of research methods and analyses.
The journal will publish papers under twelve key subject categories: Epidemiology, Clinical trials, Genetics, Observational studies, Qualitative studies, Anthropological studies, Social science, Community intervention, Health systems, Health services, Population genetics and Population history.
In addition to Original Research Articles and Brief Reports, GHEG will accept structured Reviews, as well as Commentaries and Perspectives. The journal will also support submission of Protocols, Research Resources and Analysis. GHEG will also consider relevant Letters that respond to published papers.
The Editor-in-Chief is Dr Manjinder Sandhu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, and he is supported by seven Associate Editors and a team of international Editors. For a full Editorial Board listing, please click here.
‘Open access’ is a general catch-all term covering various policies and mechanisms for making published research free to all in some form or another and at some appropriate time. ‘Open access publishing’ or ‘gold open access’ is a stronger and more specific acknowledgment that the published ‘version of record’ (i.e. the publisher’s final PDF) be made freely available to all immediately upon publication. As no subscriptions are sold to view the content, such open access journals are financially supported either by grants, or more typically through a charge levied on the submitting author’s institution or funding body.
There are many stakeholders in the publication of research: the researchers, the users and the funders. Different stakeholders have different views but many accept the fact that if you want, for example, validation, proper copyediting, presentation, sustainability, functionality (usability, reference linking, usage information, discoverability, etc.), then all this has to be paid for. Traditionally this payment has been made via subscriptions. In open access publishing, the payment is made up-front, via article processing charges (APCs). APCs can be seen as a fairer payment mechanism, provided that the costs on which the charges are based reflect accurately the services offered, and provided that the acceptance process is based on peer review, rather than financial considerations.
Open access can therefore provide an opportunity to relate costs more directly to the means of publication, and it can provide a mechanism for publication that preserves the best aspects of traditional publishing whilst offering greater ease of use and more liberal copyright and ownership. Moreover, APCs mean that costs are not being met by an ever-decreasing number of libraries that are willing to subscribe, and that the costs of publication are therefore being shared more fairly, while at the same time maximizing dissemination.
Finally, publishing is competitive: authors compete for journal space, publishers compete for papers and for library budgets. Open access and APCs are a viable alternative for those authors who want to bring closer together the decisions about where to publish and how to pay, decisions that are divorced in the traditional subscription-based model.
All submitted articles will be peer-reviewed, and the decision to accept will be made by the Editors independently of the publisher. There is no financial incentive for those responsible for the decision making to accept a higher number of papers.
Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gheg.
Instructions for authors are available here.
GHEG will not have issues; instead, articles will be published online as soon as possible after acceptance with a unique article number and DOI. We expect the first accepted papers to be published from early 2016. For more information on how articles should be cited, see below.
The journal’s content will be free to view online in perpetuity.
Articles will be cited in the normal way, but in place of page numbers, articles will be cited by their unique article number. The article number is the standard citation form for online-only journals, and will each year follow the sequence e1, e2, e3, etc. in order of acceptance.
A paper that has been published in GHEG would be cited as follows, for example:
Sandhu M (2015). Building a forum for global health, epidemiology and genomics. Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics 1, e1.
New journals are not allocated an Impact Factor immediately upon publication. Cambridge University Press will apply for this title to be indexed by Thomson Reuters in their Web of Science, the pre-requisite for attaining an Impact Factor.
Usage statistics for each published article will be collected and reported online.
The Altmetric Explorer service will be available for GHEG. Altmetric provides detailed analyses of online activity surrounding scholarly literature by monitoring the quality and quantity of social media attention that an article receives online. The article is then marked with a clear visual key demonstrating where it has been viewed or shared. For more information, please visit http://altmetric.com/.
Cambridge University Press is pleased to partner with Kudos to bring GHEG authors online tools to increase the reach of their work. The service helps researchers and their institutions/funders to measure, monitor and maximize the visibility and impact of their published articles. For more information, please visit this page.
Open access publishing in GHEG is funded through levying an article processing charge (APC) on each individual author’s institution or funding body. We are committed to maintaining the APC at a level justified by real publishing costs.
For GHEG articles submitted for publication during 2016 and 2017, Cambridge University Press will waive the APC for all authors. From 2018 a more restrictive waiver policy will operate, but Cambridge will still meet the costs for those from eligible countries (see appendix for current list). Others who genuinely have no access to funds will also be able to apply for a waiver.
Excluding waiver cases listed above, the APC will be billed on acceptance of the article for publication.
The decision whether to accept a paper for publication will rest solely with the Editors, and without reference to the funding situation of the authors. The Editors, editorial board members, and reviewers will have no involvement with the billing of APCs and cannot grant waivers.
Taxes are not included in the article processing charge. Authors resident in any of the countries of the European Union have to add Value-Added Tax. Institutions paying the fee on behalf of the author can in most cases have the VAT refunded, or, by providing their VAT registration number (except UK), avoid paying VAT altogether.
From 2017, authors will be quoted and charged in US Dollars or GB Pounds based on location as follows:
There are no charges for colour publication. Any figure provided in colour will be reproduced in colour online at no extra cost.
The author will retain the copyright of published articles.
Authors will be able to post the final published version of their article anywhere (e.g. personal webpage, institutional repository), providing the work is fully attributed. We note, however, that we can currently only track usage statistics for article views and downloads from our own site.
Articles will be published under a creative commons attribution licence (CC-BY) as standard, but authors may elect to publish under the following alternative licenses:
For information on what each license allows, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/.