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, and Short Communication in the areas of public health, medicine, dentistry, human nutrition, nursing, health administration etc.

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
  • 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

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

ICOHPS 2024 Supplementary Issue

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Book Review

Editors
  • Joel Acob
  • Arief Budiono
  • Abubakar Tarawally
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Brief

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Case Report

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Case Series

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Case Study

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Commentary

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Editorial

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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

Short Communication

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Peer Review Process

Primary Review: Primary review will be conducted for table screening by the editorial office before the review process.

Primary screening includes the manuscript format, language check, and plagiarism.

Peer review is a fundamental component of scholarly publishing and ensures scientific literature's validity and quality. It involves evaluating research work by experts (peers) in the relevant field, aiming to assess its rigor, coherence, and contribution to existing knowledge.

The article submitted to Health Dynamics going through two types of reviews:

1. Review by peer reviewers who come from outside of this journal, who has expertise relevant to the article. In this case, applied the "blind peer review process," meaning that the author does not know the reviewers who reviewed the article. The final result of the peer review is a "RECOMMENDATION".

2. Review by the editor of this journal, who produced the "DECISION".

In addition:

  • Authors need to submit a revised manuscript within the revision period given.

After receiving the decision "ACCEPTED", the article will enter the editing stage and continue towards the scheduling stage to be published in a certain 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/.

 

Archiving

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.

 

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.

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.