The Journal of Human Health Research (JHHR, ISSN 2576-9383) sets the editorial standards its Editor-in-Chief and reviewers apply to every submission. This page covers the policies specific to JHHR — peer review, authorship, human-participant research, corrections and licensing — and links out to the wider publishing policies that Open Access Pub, the journal’s publisher, applies across all of its journals.
Who decides, and how a manuscript is reviewed before that decision is made.
Editorial decisions on JHHR submissions are made by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief and handling editors on the basis of scientific and scholarly merit, independent of commercial, advertising or sponsorship considerations. Current editors are listed on the Editorial Board.
JHHR uses single-blind (double-blind on request) peer review: reviewer identities are withheld from authors by default, and an author may request double-blind review for their submission. The Editor-in-Chief screens each submission for scope and originality before assigning it to independent reviewers, whose written feedback informs the editorial decision.
A reviewer or editor with a competing interest in a manuscript — including a personal, financial or institutional connection to its authors — recuses themselves from its evaluation.
What is expected of authors, and how originality and misconduct concerns are handled.
Authors disclose any financial, personal or institutional relationship that could be seen to influence their research at the time of submission.
Submitted manuscripts are screened for originality using iThenticate before being sent for review.
Concerns about plagiarism, data fabrication, authorship disputes or other research-integrity issues are handled in line with Open Access Pub’s publication-ethics framework. Read the Ethics framework →
Because JHHR publishes human-health research, these requirements apply on top of everything above.
Research involving human participants must have been approved by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee, consistent with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Authors confirm that informed consent was obtained from participants before the research described was conducted.
Where a manuscript includes identifiable clinical details, images or case information, written consent for publication is required from the participant — or from next of kin if the participant is deceased.
Participant identifiers are removed from any shared dataset, following HIPAA Safe Harbor or Expert Determination methods, and patient confidentiality is treated as paramount throughout review and publication.
These policies support — they do not replace — the ethical, legal and professional obligations that already apply to your research. Institutional review board approval, applicable data-protection law, and your own institution’s consent requirements remain the author’s responsibility. Full guidance on consent and de-identification is on the Data Archiving & Permissions page.
What every empirical manuscript must state about its underlying data.
Every empirical JHHR manuscript must include a Data Availability Statement describing how the underlying data can be accessed — whether the data are included with the article, available from the corresponding author on reasonable request, or restricted because of participant-confidentiality requirements.
Authors are encouraged to deposit data in a recognised repository — Figshare, Dryad or Zenodo for general research data, or a domain-specific repository such as ClinicalTrials.gov, NCBI GEO or dbGaP where applicable — and to obtain written permission, with attribution, for any previously published material reused in a submission. Full detail is on the Data Archiving & Permissions page.
How the published record is corrected, and how to reach the editorial office.
An author or publisher error that does not affect the scientific validity of a published article is addressed with a correction or erratum.
Where a serious concern is confirmed — such as data fabrication, plagiarism, or a finding that undermines an article’s conclusions — JHHR follows COPE guidance on retraction. The publisher’s Retraction Policy sets out the full process. Read the Retraction Policy →
Authors, readers or reviewers who believe a published article, or the handling of a submission, needs to be reviewed or corrected can contact the editorial office directly, and the concern is reviewed by the team responsible for the journal.
What authors keep, and what readers are free to do with a published article.
JHHR publishes under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant Open Access Pub a non-exclusive licence to publish. JHHR also supports posting preprints to a recognised preprint server ahead of submission.
Full licensing terms, including how third-party material within a manuscript is handled, are set out on the Copyright & Licensing page; the publisher’s broader Open Access Policy applies alongside it.
The policies above are specific to JHHR. Open Access Pub, the publisher, also maintains the following policies, which apply the same way across all of its journals, including this one.
Explore the guidance, editorial context and published record that support an informed submission.
Review the author instructions for manuscript preparation, ethical disclosures and the submission process.
Read author instructions
This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organisation behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish. Read our preservation policy.