Rosen Bruce, Israeli Avi
Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, JDC Hill, Jerusalem, Israel.
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Isr J Health Policy Res. 2017 Dec 28;6(1):70. doi: 10.1186/s13584-017-0196-6.
The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) will soon be completing 6 years of publication. During this period, it has published well over 300 articles and has become a stable and vital part of Israeli health care. The number of IJHPR articles published annually has increased significantly over time, and the number of submissions has increased even more significantly. The journal is regularly drawing submissions from a very broad range of Israeli universities, hospitals, health plans, and other institutions, and from leading institutions abroad. The journal's articles cover a wide spectrum of subjects related to health policy, as reflected in the diversity of the article collections that the journal has launched to date. True to its mission statement, the IJHPR is promoting "intensive intellectual interactions among scholars and practitioners from Israel and other countries regarding all aspects of health policy".The journal has been indexed in all of the leading international academic databases and its current impact factor (1.36) puts it in the third quartile in two key Web of Science subject categories. Several IJHPR articles have been accessed over 10,000 times and the IJHPR has become the predominant vehicle in which Israeli scholars are publishing articles with a health policy orientation. IJHPR articles are also figuring prominently in many course syllabi in Israel, and Israeli universities have incorporated IJHPR publications into assessments of faculty members for promotion. The journal's success and progress are a part of a larger trend of greater reliance on data and analysis in health policymaking in Israel and the increasing prominence of health in the Israeli policy agenda and public discourse.During the journal's seventh year, its editors will be carrying out a serious assessment of the challenges and opportunities ahead and developing an updated plan for the journal's development. In doing so, they will draw on data presented in this editorial as well as on in-depth discussions with those who have contributed to the journal's success to date: it publisher, sponsor, and editorial board members, as well as a sample of authors, reviewers and readers. The expectation is that, by working together, it will be possible to take the journal to new heights.
《以色列卫生政策研究杂志》（IJHPR）即将迎来创刊6周年。在此期间，它已发表了300多篇文章，并成为以色列医疗保健领域稳定且重要的一部分。随着时间的推移，IJHPR每年发表的文章数量显著增加，投稿数量的增长更为显著。该杂志定期收到来自以色列众多大学、医院、医疗计划机构和其他机构以及国外顶尖机构的投稿。该杂志的文章涵盖了与卫生政策相关的广泛主题，这从该杂志迄今推出的文章集的多样性中可见一斑。秉承其使命宣言，IJHPR正在促进“以色列和其他国家的学者与从业者就卫生政策的各个方面进行深入的思想交流”。该杂志已被所有主要的国际学术数据库收录，其当前的影响因子（1.36）使其在科学网的两个关键学科类别中处于第三四分位数。IJHPR的几篇文章的访问量已超过10000次，IJHPR已成为以色列学者发表具有卫生政策导向文章的主要平台。IJHPR的文章在以色列的许多课程大纲中也占据显著地位，以色列的大学已将IJHPR的出版物纳入教师晋升评估。该杂志的成功与进步是以色列卫生政策制定中对数据和分析的依赖日益增加以及卫生在以色列政策议程和公共话语中日益突出这一更大趋势的一部分。在该杂志的第七年，其编辑将对未来的挑战和机遇进行认真评估，并制定该杂志发展的更新计划。在此过程中，他们将借鉴本社论中呈现的数据以及与迄今为该杂志的成功做出贡献的各方进行的深入讨论：其出版商、赞助商、编辑委员会成员以及一些作者、审稿人和读者。期望通过共同努力，能够将该杂志提升到新的高度。
