The Journal is nationally and internationally oriented and is intended to increase the visibility and awareness of German health care research in an international context. The Journal will publish methodological and practical high-quality studies of health care research with a special focus on "current issues" such as the use of health services-related data, digitalisation, regional health care services concepts, health care services monitoring, new forms of health care services, register-based studies for knowledge generation, etc. It will address a broad, interdisciplinary international audience. Currently, two issues with eight articles per year are planned. Articles accepted for publication after a peer-review process will be published online open access selectively in German and/or English.

Due to the cooperation with the Journal das Gesundheitswesen, we gain the benefit of being listed in PubMed from the beginning and additionally also receive an impact factor (which corresponds to that of „Das Gesundheitswesen“). The maximum article length is 25 000 characters including spaces. Articles will be published open access and an open access fee of 1,250 € plus VAT (1487.50 € gross) will be charged. Special thanks to the Thieme-Verlag for the 50% discount compared to the regular fee for open access publications. Here you can find the author information of the Thieme Verlag >>.

Editor in Chief is Prof. Dr. Jochen Schmitt, who leads the international editorial board consisting a multiperspective group of scientists and patient representatives.

Members of the Editorial Board:
Prof. Dr. Jochen Schmitt (ZEGV TU Dresden, Editor in Chief for the extra issue "International Health Care Research")
Prof. Dr. Lena Ansmann (University of Cologne, DNVF Board)
Dr. Thomas Bierbaum (DNVF)
PD Dr. Anna Levke Brütt (University of Oldenburg)
Birgit Dembski (BAG Self-Help Association)
Prof. Dr. Maria Flamm (Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Härter (UKE Hamburg, DNVF Board)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann (Greifswald University Medicine, DNVF Chairman)
Hannelore Loskill (BAG Self-Help Association)
Prof. Dr. Holger Schünemann (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
Werner Seelig (Federal Association Prostate Cancer Self-Help Group)
Prof. Dr. Manfred Wildner (Editor in Chief for the journal „Das Gesundheitswesen“)

Overall, it should be an agile magazine. The review process should not take longer than 4-6 weeks. The editorial board is participatory. The Editor in Chief acts as "first among equals".

The first issue of the Journal will be published at the 22nd German Congress of Health Care Research on October 4th, 2023 as an online extra edition of the journal "Das Gesundheitswesen".

The main topic of the first issue is:

"Study results relevant to (German) health care and the reorientation of the health care system".

Please help strengthening the international establishment and visibility of German health care research by submitting an original article or a (systematic) review on the main topic. Submissions are encouraged in German or English (preferred) language from March 1^st to April 15th 2023. You can find further information in the Call for Papers (englisch).