Journal info (provided by editor)

Manuscripts received last year
450 manuscripts
Articles published last year
140 articles
% accepted last year
31% accepted
Immediately rejected last year
40% imm. rejected
Open access status
optional
Two-year impact factor
1.49

About

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (JHCPU) is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on contemporary health care issues of medically underserved communities. JHCPU addresses such diverse areas as health care access, quality, costs, legislation, regulations, health promotion, and disease prevention in relation to underserved populations in North and Central America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as internally dispossessed Indigenous populations worldwide. The focus of the journal is on empirical research.

Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
8.8 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
8.8 months
Decision time immediate rejection
n/a
Overall rating manuscript handling
0.0 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
n/a
Difficulty of reviewer comments
n/a
Average number of review reports
4.0 reports
Quality of review reports
0.0 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 38.3 weeks. Overall rating: 0 (very bad). Outcome: Drawn back.

Motivation:
Journal editorial process was discourteous and unprofessional in handling my manuscript in a timely manner to promote findings towards publication. The editorship took an unreasonably long time to produce reviews and allowed a number of unsubstantiated, tangential reviews to be submitted. Also, unclear guidance was provided in terms of editing that provided little direction and contradictory instructions. Overall, a poor performance of editorship and scholarly peer review process characterized my experience at JHCPU.