Health Policy and Planning’s Top 10 articles in 2022

By Natasha Salaria (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Health Policy and Planning publishes health policy and systems research focusing on low- and middle-income countries. The journal consists of four sections; Health Systems Research, Health Economics, Health Policy Processes and Implementation Research and Evaluation.

In 2022, our impact factor increased from to 3.344 to 3.547 which makes us 25th out of 88th in the Health Policy & Services ISI category. We had another very busy year in 2022 leading onto 2023 with several call for papers launched including the following:

1. Call for papers: from COVID-19 to stronger health systems looking for papers on responses to COVID-19 that can help strengthen people-centred and equitable health systems [Deadline ongoing]
   You can access the ongoing article collection here.
2. Call For Papers for Supplement: Intersectoral collaboration and integrative governance on the road for health in all policies [Deadline 1 March]
3. Call for Papers: Climate Change and Health [Deadline ongoing]

For queries around submissions, please do not hesitate to contact our editorial office: hpp.editorialoffice@oup.com.

We ended the year by publishing a Statement of Intent demonstrating our commitment to continuous improvement and to doing more to ensure that global health research publishing is fair for all who to contribute. We also created and shared our new video resources for our authors and reviewers with Top 10 Tips for submitting your manuscript to Health Policy and Planning and reviewing articles. We hope this is a useful resource to our community!

As usual we kept up with our podcasts and continue to make these accessible and visible to all, discussing published papers in the Journal with our authors. This also goes for our hand-picked content by the editors of Health Policy and Planning which you can access as Editor’s choice articles here.

Below you can find our top most cited, downloaded and most accessed content in the past year from content published in 2022. We continue to thank our valued Section Editors, reviewers and authors for their dedication to HPP and contribution to the publication of high-quality research.

Top Cited

1. Operational and structural factors influencing enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes: an observational study using 12 waves of nationwide panel data from Senegal [LINK]
2. Understanding online dual practice of public hospital doctors in China: a mixed-methods study [LINK]
3. COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world [LINK]
4. Strengthening local governance in health financing in China: a text-mining analysis of policy changes between 2009 and 2020 [LINK]
5. Absenteeism Among Family Planning Providers: A Mixed-Methods Study in Western Kenya [LINK]
6. Scaling-up through piloting: dual-track provider payment reforms in China’s health system [LINK]
7. Health system governance in settings with conflict-affected populations: a systematic review [LINK]
8. Estimating a cost-effectiveness threshold for health care decision-making in South Africa-a Commentary [LINK]
9. Assessing the long-term effects of Basic Medical Insurance on catastrophic health spending in China [LINK]
10.  Assessment of the association between the Brazilian family health strategy and adult mortality [LINK]
11. Effects of COVID-19 on child health services utilization and delivery in rural Mozambique: a qualitative study [LINK]

Top Downloaded

1. How to do (or not to do) horizontal ellipsis using causal loop diagrams for health system research in low and middle-income settings [LINK]
2. Establishing political priority for global mental health: a qualitative policy analysis [LINK]
3. Coverage of iron and folic acid supplementation in India: progress under the Anemia Mukt Bharat strategy 2017-20 [LINK]
4. A comparative policy analysis of the adoption and implementation of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes (2016-19) in 16 countries [LINK]
5. Using gender analysis matrixes to integrate a gender lens into infectious diseases outbreaks research [LINK]
6. Rethinking external assistance for health [LINK]
7. Zooming in and out: a holistic framework for research on maternal, late foetal and newborn survival and health [LINK]
8. Evaluations of effective coverage of maternal and child health services: A systematic review [LINK]
9. The impact of unconditional cash transfers on morbidity and health-seeking behaviour in Africa: evidence from Ghana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe [LINK]

10. Effects of COVID-19 on child health services utilization and delivery in rural Mozambique: a qualitative study [LINK]

Top Altmetric

1. Context and priorities for health systems strengthening for pain and disability in low- and middle-income countries: a secondary qualitative study and content analysis of health policies [LINK]
2. Adoption and scale-up of the cardiovascular Polypill: a realist institutional analysis [LINK]
3. Establishing political priority for global mental health: a qualitative policy analysis [LINK]
4. Explicitly sexing health security: analysing the downstream effects of Panama’s sex-segregated COVID-19 disease control policy [LINK]
5. Rethinking external assistance for health [LINK]
6. Health policy and planning: statement of intent [LINK]
7. Power across the global health landscape: a network analysis of development assistance 1990–2015 [LINK]
8. Characterizing key misconceptions of equity in health financing for universal health coverage [LINK]
9. Health system governance in settings with conflict-affected populations: a systematic review [LINK]
10.  A qualitative evaluation of priority-setting by the Health Benefits Package Advisory Panel in Kenya [LINK]