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Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 1/2019

Open Access 01-12-2019 | Editorial

Innovation and The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research

Authors: Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli, Stephen Schoenbaum

Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research | Issue 1/2019

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Abstract

The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) is a peer-reviewed, on-line, open access journal, sponsored by Israel’s National Institute for Health Policy Research. We believe that it is both an innovative platform and a platform for innovation. Within just 2 years of its launch in 2012, the IJHPR was accepted into the prestigious Web of Science – primarily because of its innovative positioning as a journal that is simultaneously national and international. This positioning has contributed to annual growth of over 20% in both submissions and publications and to the IJHPR being ranked among the top half of public health journals, just 6 years after its launch date.
The IJHPR has also served as a platform for numerous innovations, including:
  • Sharing with the international community information about Israeli innovations in public health, health policy, health care delivery, and more.
  • Enhancing the impact of empirical studies by Israeli scholars via commentaries by leading scholars from abroad – including 18 commentaries from scholars based at Harvard and one commentary by a Nobel laureate in economics.
  • Developing a new genre of articles for Israel, namely, broad policy analyses focused on major challenges facing Israeli health care.
  • Creating dynamic, constantly growing, article collections in such fields as digital health, pharmaceutical policy and health care equity, to highlight areas of excellence as well as important issues in Israeli health care and health policy.
  • Disseminating to a wide audience the essence of major Israeli health policy workshops and conferences.
We feel that the IJHPR has significant potential to contribute more, and in new ways, in the years ahead. We look forward to your suggestions for innovative enhancements of the IJHPR.
Footnotes
1
Interestingly, among the 82 journals in the Health Policy and Services category of the 2019 Journal Citation Report, only 6 included in the journal title the name of a specific country, and 4 others included in the journal title the name of a specific region or continent.
 
2
Israelis are very open and curious to learn from other countries’ experiences, and also want be keep up to date on what is going on in Israel, so this dual nature meets both needs in a single journal and is a good fit for Israel.
 
3
Almost half of the IJHPR articles (234 out of 478) published as of September 8, 2019 included at least one author with an affiliation with an institution in a country other than Israel. Most of the 234 were commentaries, while 64 of them were original research articles or integrative articles.
 
4
Note that these data rely on the affiliations listed by the authors themselves and these may not be complete. While authors are allowed to list more than one affiliation, and all listed affiliations are counted, it may be that some authors inadvertently neglect to list all of their institutional affiliations.
 
5
While persons interested in identifying a set of Israeli articles on a specific topic could use Google Scholar or Web of Science to do so, our article collections have two specific advantages. First, they are carefully curated by the editors, who are familiar with the content of the articles beyond the use of certain keywords. Second, they enable the editors to proactively alert scholars in a particular field that the IJHPR is interested in their field and has a collection of articles that could interest them.
 
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Metadata
Title
Innovation and The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
Authors
Bruce Rosen
Avi Israeli
Stephen Schoenbaum
Publication date
01-12-2019
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research / Issue 1/2019
Electronic ISSN: 2045-4015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0353-1

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