INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
eISSN:
19457243 | ISSN:
00469580 | Current volume: 61 | Current issue: 1
Frequency: Yearly
Journal Highlights
- Impact Factor: 2.5 (5 year)
- Indexed In: Web of Science, PubMed/Medline, and PubMed Central
- Published since 1964
- Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC)
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INQUIRY is a health care provision and public health-focused, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing research that informs healthcare practice and policy, with the goal of improving health outcomes. The journal is indexed in Medline and JCR SSCI. Published since 1964, the journal covers a wide range of topics, delivering valuable insights through our core sections, expert-led thematic sections, and expert-curated special collections.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submission Information
Submit your manuscript at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/inq.
Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.
Open access article processing charge (APC) information
Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
The APC for this journal is currently 3000 USD.
The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
Contact Information
Please direct any queries to INQEditor@sagepub.com.
Why Publish Open Access with INQUIRY
- Visibility and Impact: Anyone anywhere in the world can read, use and cite your research
- Rigorous Standards: Double-blind peer review policy
- Flexibility: No page limits or page charges, and authors can publish full data sets, figures, tables, etc
- Copyright: Authors retain copyright under a Creative Commons License
INQUIRY is a health care provision and public health-focused, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing research that informs healthcare practice and policy, with the goal of improving health outcomes. The journal is indexed in Medline and JCR SSCI. Published since 1964, the journal covers a wide range of topics, delivering valuable insights through our core sections, expert-led thematic sections, and expert-curated special collections.
Article Types and Topics of Interest
INQUIRY welcomes original research articles, systematic and narrative reviews, policy analyses, policy briefs, pilot studies, brief reports, and case studies with implications at the public health or health organization levels, particularly in the following areas:
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Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Immunology
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Chronic Disease Epidemiology
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Health Policy, Planning, and Implementation
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Health Economics and Financing
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Health Services Research, Administration, and Patient Care
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Health Care Access, Quality Assurance, and Evaluation
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Health Promotion, Communication, and Education
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Addiction and Substance Abuse
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Mental Health
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Environmental and Occupational Health
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Institutional Ethics
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Biostatistics
Click here to see a selection of the latest papers published in INQUIRY
Manuscript Submission
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- Please refer to the Submission Guidelines tab for more information before submitting your manuscript.
Executive Editor
| Umair Shafique, MSc | SAGE Publishing, USA |
Managing Editor
| Ananya Guduru, MBA | SAGE Publishing, India |
| Deeksha Pharasi | SAGE Publishing, India |
Section Editors - US Health Financing
| Brian Miller, MD, MBA, MPH | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA |
| Lisa M. Grabert, PhD, MPH | Marquette University, USA |
Section Editor – Health Services in the Asia-Pacific Region
| Jay Pan, PhD | Sichuan University, China |
Section Editor – Advances in Methodology and Data Science for Health Research
| Kavita Batra, PhD, MPH, BDS | Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, USA |
Senior Editorial Advisory Board
| Kurt Angstman, MD | Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Thomas Buchmueller, Ph.D. | Professor of Risk Management and Insurance; Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan, USA |
| Joel C. Cantor, Sc.D. | Distinguished Professor and Director Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers University, USA |
| Judith Feder, Ph.D. | Professor, Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy and Urban Institute Fellow, USA |
| Peter Hilsenrath, PhD | University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA |
| John Holahan, Ph.D. | Director, Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute, USA |
| David H. Klein, Chairman | University of Rochester, USA |
| James R. Knickman, Ph.D. | President and CEO New York State Health Foundation, USA |
| Alan C. Monheit, PhD | Professor of Health Economics, School of Public Health, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA |
| Marilyn Moon, Ph.D. | Institute Fellow, American Institutes for Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA |
| James E. Rohrer, PhD | Walden University, USA |
| Diane Rowland, Sc.D. | Executive Vice President, Kaiser Family Foundation, USA |
| Mustafa Z. Younis | Professor, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA |
Editorial Advisory Board – US Health Financing
| David Anderson, PhD | Assistant Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, USA |
| Adam Atherly, PhD | Professor of Health Administration and Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| Olga Yakusheva, PhD, MSPE, FAAN | Professor of Nursing, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, USA |
Editorial Advisory Board – US Health Economics
| Melissa McInerney, PhD | Tufts University, USA |
| Jason Shafrin, PhD | Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting; Founder and Editor, Healthcare Economist Blog |
Editorial Advisory Board – Patient Safety and Quality of Care
| Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D | Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing & Director, iTEQC Research Program, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA |
Editorial Review Board
| Lola Adepoju, PhD, MPH | University of Houston, USA |
| Areekul Amornsriwatanakul, PhD | Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Labiba Anam | Ministry of public health and population ,Sana'a, Yemen |
| Saeideh Babashahi, PhD, MSc, BSc | Department of Global Health and Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Brighton and University of Sussex, Brighton, UK |
| Heejung Bang | UC-Davis, USA |
| Vesna Borovnik Lesjak | Zdravstveni Dom dr Adolfa Drolca Maribor, Slovenia |
| Patricia Brierley-Bowers | Deloitte Consulting, LLP |
| Derek Brown | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| Elan Burton | Stanford University School of Medicine, USA |
| Lenisa Chang, Ph.D | University of Cincinnati, USA |
| Mario Coccia, PhD | Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, National Research Council Of Italy, Torino, Italy |
| Michael R. Cousineau | |
| Patrick D’Haese, PhD, MBA | MED-EL Austria; Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium |
| Julie Darnell | Loyola University Chicago, USA |
| Ganisher Davlyatov, PhD | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA |
| Neeraj Dayama, MD, PhD, MBA | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA |
| Melaku Desta | Debre Markos University, Ethiopia |
| Rinshu Dwivedi | Indian Institute of Information Technology, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Abdulaziz M. Eshaq, MBBS, MPH | Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, USA |
| Victoria Fan | University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA |
| Maxim Gakh | University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA |
| Shir Ginzburg | Uconn Health, USA |
| Salime Goharinezhad | Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran |
| Evan V. Goldstein, PhD, MPP | University of Utah School of Medicine, USA |
| Hengyu Gu | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
| Courtney Haun | High Point University, USA |
| Paulo Hayashi Jr | State University of Campinas, Brazil |
| Javad Hekmat-panah | The University of Chicago Medical Center, USA |
| Lisa Hollis-Sawyer, Ph.D | Northeastern Illinois University, USA |
| Daizheng huang | Guangxi Medical University, China |
| Yen-Ming Huang | National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan |
| Mudathir Ibrahim, MD | Maimonides Medical Center, USA |
| Konstantinos Kafetsios, PhD | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Zeynal Karaca | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, USA |
| Md. Abdullah Saeed Khan | National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Bangladesh |
| Sung-Woo Kim | Konkuk University, Korea |
| Kuang-Ming Kuo | National United University, Taiwan |
| Anthony Kwame Morgan | Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| Jieni Li | University of Houston College of Pharmacy, USA |
| Hailun Liang | Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA |
| Jing Liao | Sun Yat-sen University, China |
| Sebastian Linde, PhD | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Shiyong Liu, PhD | Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, China |
| Jay Maddock | Texas A&M University College Station, USA |
| Daniel Maeng | Geisinger Institute, USA |
| Wael Mancy | King Saud University, Saudi Arabia |
| Roberto Martinez-Lacoba | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Campus de Albacete, Spain |
| James H. Marton | Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, USA |
| Nathaniel E. Miller, MD | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine |
| Harriet Elizabeth Moore, DSc | University of Lincoln, UK |
| Lucia Mupara | University of KwaZulu-Natal College of Health Sciences,South Africa |
| Noureddin Nakhostin Ansari | Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran |
| Priscilla Novak, MPH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, USA |
| Xan Nowakowski, Ph.D, MPH | FSU College of Medicine, USA |
| Wilfred Njabulo Nunu | National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe |
| Claire O'Hanlon | Department of Veterans Affairs, USA |
| Amira Ahmed Othman, Ph.D, MD | Department of Internal Medicine, Suez University, Suez, Egypt |
| Yang Qian, PhD | Zhejiang University, China |
| Wuqi Qiu | Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College Institute of Medical Information, China |
| Momotazur Rahman, Ph.D | Brown University, USA |
| Emily Roberts | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Adam Rose, MD, MSc | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Zeibeda Sattar, MSc PhD | Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
| Sangeeta Saxena, MD, DrPH, ALM, MLE | Department of Public Health, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA |
| Irudaya Rajan Sebastian | The International Institute of Migration and Development, India |
| Bisakha Sen | University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| Manushi Sharma | Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Thailand |
| Patrick Shay, PhD | Trinity University, USA |
| Ching Sin Siau | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia |
| Zesheng SUN | Shanghai Normal University, China |
| Diana Tang | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Han Thi Ngoc Nguyen, MD | University Medical Center Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Soumya Upadhyay | University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA |
| Hilco J. van Elten, PhD | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Claudimar Veiga | Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil |
| Sharuna Verghis | Monash University, Malaysia |
| Lucy Xiaolu Wang | University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA |
| Rixiang Xu | Anhui Medical University, China |
| Wendy Yi Xu | Ohio State University, USA |
| Qin Xuezheng | Peking University, China |
| Yiyang Yuan, PhD | University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA |
| Pan Yuhang, PhD | Peking University, China |
| Natalie Zambrino | Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland |
| Hossein Zare, PhD, MS | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Jifang Zhou, MD, PhD, MPH | China Pharmaceutical University, China |
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