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Aims & Scope


Women’s Health Reports is a high-quality open access journal providing peer-reviewed research on a broad range of topics related to the optimal care for women across the lifespan from adolescence through late adulthood, with an emphasis on clinical papers, translational research, and health promotion and wellness. The journal will publish on a continuous cycle using an Open Access format.

Women’s Health Reports publishes peer-reviewed original articles, reviews, commentaries, case reports, and short communications on a wide range of topics in women’s healthcare from clinicians and researchers around the globe. This multidisciplinary journal covers women’s healthcare across the lifespan and supports primary care practitioners working in a variety of settings and populations. The Open Access format allows for broad visibility for the authors’ work and the widest distribution of content.

Benefits of publishing in Women's Health Reports:

  • Open access guarantees broadest possible visibility for author’s work
  • Affiliation with successful flagship Journal of Women’s Health Journal
  • Rapid and transparent peer review
  • Rapid publication online in 4-6 weeks
  • All papers published under a CC-BY license

Women’s Health Reports is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; Deputy Editor Robert W. Downs, Jr., MD, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; and other leading investigators. View the editorial board.

Indexing/Abstracting:

  • PubMed Central
  • Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index™ (ESCI)
  • Scopus
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • SafetyLit
  • BenchSci
The views, opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations set forth in any Journal article are solely those of the authors of those articles and do not necessarily reflect the views, policy or position of the Journal, its Publisher, its editorial staff or any affiliated Societies and should not be attributed to any of them.