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
Ethics & policies
LJPH follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices. What follows is the summary; the full text of each policy is on the platform's policies page, and it governs where this summary is silent.
- Peer review
- Double-anonymous by default. Open review is available when both the author and the reviewer opt in, in which case the reports are published alongside the article. Reviewer identities are never disclosed without consent.
- Authorship
- Authorship requires substantial contribution, approval of the submitted version, and agreement to be accountable for the work. Changes to the author list after submission require written agreement from every author, including any being removed.
- Competing interests
- Declared by authors at submission, by reviewers at assignment and by editors at handling. A declared interest is not usually disqualifying; an undeclared one is.
- Corrections & retractions
- Errors that do not affect conclusions are corrected; those that do are retracted. Retraction notices name the reason and are linked from the original, which stays online and marked rather than disappearing.
- Plagiarism
- Every submission is screened with iThenticate at desk stage. Similarity is read by an editor, not scored by a threshold — a heavily-cited methods paragraph is not misconduct and a paraphrased introduction may be.
- Data & code
- Availability statements are required. Where data cannot be shared, the statement must say why, and 'available on request' is accepted only with a named contact who has agreed to be it.
- AI-assisted writing
- Generative tools may be used for language editing and must be disclosed. They cannot be listed as authors, and authors remain responsible for every claim and every citation in the submitted text.
