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International Journal of Health Geographics Template

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International Journal of Health Geographics is a peer-reviewed journal published by BMC (BioMed Central), covering Data-Driven Disease Surveillance, Urban Transport and Accessibility, Health disparities and outcomes. Over its lifetime it has published 1,133 papers, which have received 60,624 citations.

PublisherBMC (BioMed Central)
Reference styleNumbered (Vancouver)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. International Journal of Health Geographics. 2023;12(3):45–58.

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Publishes research inData-Driven Disease Surveillance Urban Transport and Accessibility Health disparities and outcomes Spatial and Panel Data Analysis COVID-19 epidemiological studies
ISSN1476-072X
Citation impact (2-yr)2.87
h-index118
i10-index904
Article processing charge$2,563
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereHarvard University
Journal websitelink.springer.com
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Papers published in International Journal of Health Geographics per year

52
2014
37
2015
44
2016
47
2017
44
2018
31
2019
58
2020
46
2021
22
2022
38
2023
27
2024
57
2025

Citation impact of International Journal of Health Geographics by publication year

3.2K
2014
1.8K
2015
1.6K
2016
2K
2017
2.1K
2018
1.3K
2019
2.7K
2020
1.1K
2021
313
2022
487
2023
232
2024
90
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in International Journal of Health Geographics

Spatial accessibility of primary care: concepts, methods and challenges

Mark F. Guagliardo · 26 Feb 2004

Primary care is recognized as the most important form of healthcare for maintaining population health because it is relatively inexpensive, can be more easily delivered than specialty and inpatient care, and if properly distributed it is most effective in preventing disease progression on a large scale. Recent advances in the field of health geography have…

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Geographical tracking and mapping of coronavirus disease COVID-19/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic and associated events around the world: how 21st century GIS technologies are supporting the global fight against outbreaks and epidemics

Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Estella M. Geraghty · 11 Mar 2020

In December 2019, a new virus (initially called 'Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV' and later renamed to SARS-CoV-2) causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (coronavirus disease COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and rapidly spread to other parts of China and other countries around the world, despite China's massive efforts to contain the disease within Hubei. As…

A flexibly shaped spatial scan statistic for detecting clusters

Toshiro Tango, Kunihiko Takahashi · 18 May 2005

BACKGROUND: The spatial scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff has been applied to a wide variety of epidemiological studies for cluster detection. This scan statistic, however, uses a circular window to define the potential cluster areas and thus has difficulty in correctly detecting actual noncircular clusters. A recent proposal by Duczmal and Assunção for detecting noncircular…

Comparing alternative approaches to measuring the geographical accessibility of urban health services: Distance types and aggregation-error issues

Philippe Apparicio, Mohamed Abdelmajid, Mylène Riva et al. · 1 Jan 2008

BACKGROUND: Over the past two decades, geographical accessibility of urban resources for population living in residential areas has received an increased focus in urban health studies. Operationalising and computing geographical accessibility measures depend on a set of four parameters, namely definition of residential areas, a method of aggregation, a measure of accessibility, and a type…

Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples

Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Bernd Resch, David N. Crowley et al. · 1 Jan 2011

'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in 2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term 'Volunteered Geographic Information'. Six years later (2005-2011), OpenStreetMap and Google Earth (GE) are now full-fledged, crowdsourced 'Wikipedias of the Earth' par excellence, with millions of users contributing their own layers to GE, attaching…

International Journal of Health Geographics template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the International Journal of Health Geographics format?
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What reference style does International Journal of Health Geographics use?
International Journal of Health Geographics uses Numbered (Vancouver) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. International Journal of Health Geographics. 2023;12(3):45–58.
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