Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Health Dynamics is an open-access journal that publishes Original Research, Case Report, Case Study, Case Series, Literature Reviews, Study Protocol, Short Communications, Commentary, Opinion, Book Review, Brief, Letter to Editor, Theory and Conceptual Article, and Short Communication in the areas of public health, medicine, dentistry, human nutrition, nursing, health administration etc.

The aims of the Health Dynamics journal are to provide a platform for researchers, academics, and practitioners to share evidence-based findings that contribute to public health advancements. The journal seeks to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in public health research and disseminate studies that inform policies and interventions at local, national, and international levels. Additionally, Health Dynamics encourages the practical application of research findings in real-world public health settings to drive meaningful impact and improve population health outcomes.

The Journal welcomes papers within the intended scope as follows:

A. Public Health

  • Epidemiology
  • Occupational health
  • Environmental public health
  • Public Health Education and Training
  • Public Health Disease Control
  • Reproductive health
  • One health (zoonotic diseases related to human health)

B. Medicine

  • Clinical studies
  • Health Sciences
  • Diseases

C. Dentistry

  • Pedodontics and preventive dentistry
  • Orthodontics and prosthodontics
  • Oral surgery and maxillofacial surgery
  • Dental pathology and endodontics
  • Periodontology and oral medicine

D. Food and Health

  • Human nutrition, applied nutrition, clinical nutrition, dietetics, community nutrition
  • Health related food safety and quality, food hazards and toxicity, functional food, food science

F. Health Administration

  • Health policy
  • Health economics
  • Health legislation
  • Health promotion
  • Health communication and informatics

G. Nursing and Midwives

  • Nursing in internal medicine, paediatrics, gynaecology and obstetrics, surgery, dentistry, emergency nursing
  • Nursing informatics
  • Maternal and Child

Types of manuscripts that are accepted by Health Dynamics

1. Original Research:

  • Original research in above mentioned scopes of this journal

2. Case Report

  • Case Report in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Surgery, Dentistry

3. Literature Reviews: 

  • Narrative review
  • Systematic Review and/or Meta-Analysis
  • Scoping Review
  • Critical Review

4. Short Communications: Short Communications are short papers that present original and significant research that needs to be published quickly.

5. Commentary: A commentary is a more in-depth analysis written to draw attention to a work already published. Commentaries are somewhat like “reviews” in that the author presents his or her analysis of a work and why it would be of interest to a specific audience.

6. Opinion: An opinion piece is a short article that conveys the author’s viewpoint on a research study. It presents a personal review of, for example, the methods and analyses done in the study. It also provides the author’s viewpoint on the researcher’s hypothesis and its shortcomings (if any). These pieces are meant to provide constructive criticism. Although they are personal observations, evidence should be available to support the author’s critique of the study.

7. Book Review: A book review aims to provide a brief summary of the book's strengths and weaknesses and to evaluate its overall usefulness to the intended audience.

8. Letter to Editor: Letters to the editor will be considered for publication if they are pertinent to articles recently published in Health Dynamics (HD) journals.

9. Brief: Briefs are short, observational studies that report preliminary results or novel findings or a short complete study.

10. Editorial: An editorial is an article written by or on behalf of the editors that gives an opinion on a topical issue

 

Section Policies

Brief

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Review

Editors
  • Joel Acob
  • Arief Budiono
  • Abubakar Tarawally
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Case Report

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Case Series

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Case Study

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Commentary

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Editorial

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Letter to Editor

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Opinion

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Original Research

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Protocol

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Review (Narrative/Critical)

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Review (Systematic/Meta-Analysis/Scoping/Umbrella)

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Mini Review

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Short Communication

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Theory and Conceptual Article

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

1st NHM International Conference 2025

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

ICOHPS 2024 Supplementary Issue

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Articles submitted to Health Dynamics undergo a peer review process to ensure the publication of high-quality and reliable research. The journal follows anonymous peer review (a single-anonymized peer review system), where the authors are unaware of the reviewers’ identities.

Peer Review Process

1. Primary Screening: 

The editorial office conducts an initial screening before the formal review process. This includes checking the manuscript format, language quality, and plagiarism detection.

2. Reviewer Assignment: 

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are assigned to at least two independent peer reviewers with relevant expertise. These reviewers are external to the journal and selected based on their subject-matter knowledge.

3. Review Evaluation: 

Peer review is a critical step in scholarly publishing that ensures the validity and quality of scientific research. Reviewers assess the manuscript’s rigor, clarity, coherence, and contribution to existing knowledge. The review process typically takes 4–6 weeks, depending on reviewer availability. Feedback is provided to the authors for improvement. 

4. Decision Making:

Based on reviewers’ feedback, the editor makes one of the following decisions:

- Accept without revisions

- Accept with minor revisions

- Revise and resubmit (major revisions required)

-Reject

Authors are expected to submit revised manuscripts within the specified timeframe, addressing all reviewer comments.

5. Final Decision and Publication:

After revisions, the manuscript is re-evaluated. Upon final approval, it proceeds to copyediting, formatting, and is scheduled for publication in a specific volume and issue.

 

Publication Frequency

The Health Dynamics is published as a monthly journal with twelve (12) issues in one volume a year. 

 

Open Access Policy

Health Dynamics is a fully open access journal. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange. Once published, your article will be immediately and permanently available for readers to read, download, and share. Readers will be able to access your article freely on https://knowdyn.org/.

Open Access Statement

Health Dynamics is a fully open access journal, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. Benefits of open access for authors include:

  • Free access for all users worldwide
  • Authors retain copyright to their work
  • Retention of copyright by the authors
  • Increased visibility and readership
  • Rapid publication
  • No spatial limitations
This policy ensures that research findings are accessible to researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and the public worldwide.

 

Archiving

Health Dynamics journal is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of all its published content. To achieve this, the journal implements a comprehensive archiving policy aligned with international standards in digital preservation.

Archiving Systems

To safeguard its content, Health Dynamics archives all published articles through the following platform:

  • Public Knowledge Project’s Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PN) – This system ensures decentralized, secure, and long-term storage of published content.
  • This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Repository Policy

Authors are encouraged to self-archive the final version of their published articles into institutional repositories (such as those listed in the Directory of Open Access). For this purpose, authors are strongly encouraged to use the final PDF version published on the website.

Self-Archiving Policy

Authors are permitted and encouraged to self-archive their published articles under the following conditions:

  • Submitted version: Authors may share the pre-submission version of their manuscript in preprint servers.
  • Accepted version: Authors may archive the peer-reviewed, accepted version of their manuscript with an embargo period.
  • Published version: Authors may archive the final published PDF on personal websites and other open-access platforms, provided proper citation and attribution are given.

Policy on Content Permanence

  • Article Retention: Once published, all articles remain permanently available on the journal’s website and designated archiving systems.
  • DOI and Persistent Identifiers: All published articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to ensure permanent citation and accessibility.
  • Content Migration: In the event of technological obsolescence, the journal commits to migrating its content to updated digital formats to ensure continued accessibility.
The repository policy of Health Dynamics is designed to support the broad dissemination of research while respecting the rights of authors and the interests of the journal. By allowing the archiving of different versions of scholarly articles, Health Dynamics ensures that the research is accessible to a wider audience, thus increasing citation and impact. This policy is clearly documented in international repositories like Sherpa/Romeo, Diadorim, Dulcinea, and Mir@bel, ensuring transparency and ease of access to policy details for authors worldwide.

 

Plagiarism and Data Fabrication

Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. We define plagiarism as copying text, ideas, images or data from another source, even from own publications, without giving credit to the original sources. To ensure the originality, all submitted manuscripts are screened using plagiarism checkers Turnitin. Manuscripts indicated with a similarity index of more than 15% may be rejected. Health Dynamics strongly follow the publication ethics and will check similarity index for all submitted documents. 

Data presented must be original and not inappropriately selected, manipulated, enhanced, or fabricated. This includes 1) exclusion of data points to enhance the significance of conclusions, 2) fabrication of data, 3) selection of results that support a particular conclusion at the expense of contradictory data, 4) deliberate selection of analysis tools or methods to support a particular conclusion (including p-hacking). We strongly recommend preregistration of methods and analysis.

 

Article Metrics & Usage Statistics

Article-level metrics are designed to help authors assess this by providing a better understanding of the reach of an article or published research, and the attention it is receiving online. This journal will provide access to the number of online views of each article, the number of citations to each article, and the Altmetric score of each article:

Article Download/View Statistics: Download/View statistics will be separately available for every article published.