Peer-reviewed · Quarterly · Since 2018
Lighthouse Journal of Public Health
Population health, health systems, epidemiology and health policy, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income settings and on implementation rather than efficacy alone.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Farhan Qureshi, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
For authors
Before you submit, read the Aims & Scope. Scope, not quality, is the reason for most desk rejections at LJPH, and a scope rejection costs you five days here and a season somewhere else.
Pre-submission checklist
- The manuscript is anonymised: no author names, affiliations or acknowledgements in the main file.
- All co-authors have seen and approved this version, and each meets the authorship criteria on our policies page.
- Data and code are available, or the submission explains why they cannot be.
- Any competing interests are declared in the cover letter, financial or otherwise.
- Figures are supplied at 300 dpi or as vectors, with captions in the manuscript rather than in the image.
- The reference list matches the citations in the text — both directions.
What happens after you submit
- 1Desk screening — 5 daysScope, format and a similarity check. You hear either way.
- 2Peer review — 21 daysTwo reviewers minimum, double-anonymous, structured reports. LJPH runs a 5–7 weeks window end to end.
- 3Decision — 5 daysAccept, revise or decline, with the reviewer reports and a signed editor's letter.
- ✓Online-first — 10 days after acceptanceDOI live immediately; issue assignment follows at the next number.
