Value in Health Regional Issues
Value in Health Regional Issues, ISPOR's journal for regional advancements in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), is a peer-reviewed, MEDLINE-indexed journal that publishes applied research using HEOR methods to examine health systems, policies, and patient populations in all geographic regions. The journal's current impact factor score is 1.4 and the current CiteScore is 2.6.
The editors are interested in receiving original contributions of economic evaluations of healthcare interventions, health policy analyses, and health equity research that examine the impact on regional health policy, translate knowledge across countries, and demonstrate the broader implications to other regions.
Aims & Scope
Aims
Value in Health Regional Issues aims to be the recognized source for regional advancements in heath economics and outcomes research (HEOR).
Value in Health Regional Issues aims to publish papers that apply HEOR methods to examine and measure the impact on health systems, policies, and patient populations. Submitted research must focus on regional populations and regional health policies and demonstrate the broader implications for other regions.
Scope
Value in Health Regional Issues publishes a wide range of article types that contribute to our aims, including:
Applied Research Using HEOR Methods
Economic evaluations or impact analyses of healthcare interventions (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, or procedures) that examine the effect of regional health policies on healthcare performance, population health, or social welfare.
Health Policy AnalysesArticles that translate knowledge across countries (eg, evaluations between high- and low- and middle-income countries, cross country comparisons, etc) and discuss various aspects of health policy, including pricing and reimbursement issues, the adoption of new health technologies, or policies to encourage “value-based” decision making.
Health Equity Research
Research that reflects regional experiences using HEOR methods such as distributional or extended cost-effectiveness analysis, checklists for qualitative judgments, simple indicators, or deliberative exercises to incorporate health equity concerns into local resource allocation in decisions.
Patient-Centered Research
Articles that present research on the development and use of measures for patient-reported outcomes and quality-of-life instruments that express the value of healthcare. Research on patient participation in value-based decision-making processes or health technology assessment are also welcome. These papers should show results or impact on the community perception or changes in procedures or outcomes resulting from patient participation in research and policy making.
Scoping and Literature Reviews
Reviews that synthesize and summarize the current knowledge on a specific topic or question to identify the main concepts, theories, and evidence gaps within a specific geographic region. These papers review empirical studies consistent with the methods outlined by the Cochrane Collaboration and PRISMA.
The ISPOR journal portfolio consists of Value in Health Regional Issues and Value in Health. For more information and detailed guidance about the article types and formatting requirements for Value in Health Regional Issues, please consult the journal’s Instructions for Authors.
Transition to Open Access
On January 1, 2025, Value in Health Regional Issues will become a fully gold open access title.
Why gold open access?
Open access is an integral part of a commitment to collaborative, inclusive, and transparent research. Crucially, it brings many benefits for you as an author, including its ability to spark new interdisciplinary partnerships and collaborative research. Other benefits include:
- Increased visibility for your paper: When your article is published gold open access, it is immediately and permanently accessible to a wider audience, triggering the possibility of more readers, downloads, citations, and impact. And when you publish gold open access with ISPOR and Elsevier, your work is automatically discoverable on the Value in Health Regional Issues and ScienceDirect websites, with 19 million unique monthly visitors. What’s more, your article is indexed and shared as widely as possible: our gold open access journals are featured in prominent databases such as Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Web of Science, and PubMed Central.
- Drive science equity: Open access promotes science equity by making scientific knowledge universally accessible. In 2023, 500K+ researchers across 190+ countries and territories published open access with Elsevier, making their articles globally available.
What happens next?
Watch this space for future announcements, including when authors submitting to Value in Health Regional Issues will be asked to pay an article publishing charge after peer review and acceptance. This will cover the cost of publishing your article and making it freely and permanently available.
We look forward to receiving your submission and to helping you share your research with the world.
Open Access Publishing Options
Value in Health Regional Issues authors have 2 options to publish their research in ISPOR journals:
| Gold Open Access | Subscription | |
| Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. | Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups Elsevier’s access programs. | |
| An open access publication fee is payable by authors or their research funder. | No open access publication fee. | |
Your publication choice will have no effect on the peer-review process or acceptance of your submission.
25% Discount for ISPOR Members
Did you know that ISPOR members receive a 25% discount on open access publishing fees? The cost of membership more than pays for itself for researchers who maintain or become ISPOR members and expect to publish at least 1 open access article a year in an ISPOR journal (ie, Value in Health and/or Value in Health Regional Issues).
