Reproductive Health publishes content on all aspects of human reproduction. The journal includes sections dedicated to adolescent health, female fertility and midwifery and all articles are open access. Reproductive Health has a particular interest on the impact changes in reproductive health have globally, and therefore encourages submissions from researchers based in low- and middle-income countries. Read more.
Aims and scope
Call For Papers: Global Perspectives on Reproductive Coercion and Abuse
Reproductive Health is excited to launch a call for submissions on Global Perspectives on Reproductive Coercion and Abuse.
Guest Edited by Professor Laura Tarzia & Doctor Nicola Sheeran, this series will focus on advancing our conceptual understanding of reproductive coercion and abuse in a global context.
Please read more about this thematic series here.
Call for Papers: Understanding and supporting pregnant and parenting adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa
Reproductive Health is excited to launch a call for submissions on Understanding and supporting pregnant and parenting adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa.
Guest edited by Doctor Caroline Kabiru, Doctor Anthony Ajayi and Doctor Lorretta Ntoimo, this series will focus on the risks and implications of adolescent childbearing on young girls in sub-Saharan Africa.
Please read more about this thematic series here.
Articles
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Feasibility of establishing a core set of sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health indicators in humanitarian settings: results from a multi-methods assessment in Bangladesh
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Development of a scale to evaluate negative menstrual attitudes among Nepalese women
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Geographical hotspots and correlates of early sexual debut among women in Ghana
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Viral suppression among pregnant adolescents and women living with HIV in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a cross sectional study to assess progress towards UNAIDS indicators and Implications for HIV Epidemic Control
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Idiopathic isolated clitoromegaly: A report of two cases
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Limits to modern contraceptive use among young women in developing countries: a systematic review of qualitative research
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Consanguinity and reproductive health among Arabs
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Religiosity and teen birth rate in the United States
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal health: a scoping review
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Call For Papers
Reproductive Health is excited to launch a call for submissions on reproductive justice that explores a vital approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Canada.
Please read more about the new thematic series here, with the following commentary led by our Editor in Chief, Dr. Sanni Yaya.
Reproductive justice, an intersectional framework that includes social justice and human rights, was founded in the 1990s, by a grass-roots organization led by women of color in the United States. Reproductive Health would like to invite submissions exploring reproductive justice to better understand the interlinks between structural racism and sexual and reproductive health outcomes among Indigenous and racialized communities in Canada. These intersectional frameworks warrant more attention among researchers, governments, funders, and advocates working in this space.
Submissions can be commentary, review, or research (i.e., case studies, programs, interventions, studies investigating or reporting methods and results of an original study). Topics of interest include SRHR in Canada, systemic racism in SRHR, contraception, abortion, family planning, medical bias, health systems, health policy, health promotion, the impact of racism on SRHR in Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), the role of gendered racism in sexual and reproductive health disparities among BIPOC women, etc.
The new section is being led by co-Editor in Chief, Dr. Sanni Yaya. We encourage you to submit!
New Journal Section
Reproductive Health Ushers In New Journal Section Covering Elderly reproductive health
Aging will have a major impact on health and social policies and the elderly people (men and women) will likely be among the policy-making priorities in the few next decades. However, sexual and reproductive health and rights in older adults remain a “taboo” among individuals, health professionals, researchers and the issue represents a “blind spot” in the policy architecture. All this while there are large and growing inequalities in healthy aging. This subcategory of the journal welcomes submissions that would help better understand the needs and issues related to the reproductive health of this age group passing the reproductive period.
COVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
Announcing the launch of In Review
Reproductive Health, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:
- Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
- Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
- Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received
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Editors-in-Chief
Professor Sanni Yaya
Professor Sanni Yaya is a Full Professor of Economics and Global Health, Director and the Associate Dean of the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa in Canada. His work focuses on a broad array of multidisciplinary topics in development and global health. He has been involved in many research projects in Africa, Europe and in North America and now works in low- and middle-income countries where he collaborates with partners to advocate for cost-effective interventions addressing Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH).
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48 days to first decision for all manuscripts
125 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
200 days from submission to acceptance
21 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
3.223 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.098 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.407 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.223 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
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