About the Journal

Indian Journal of Community Health (IJCH) is an official publication of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM), a nonprofit professional organization of specialists in Community Medicine founded in 1974. IJCH is managed by the Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand Chapter of IAPSM

Indian Journal of Community Health (IJCH) with ISSN PRINT: 0971-7587; ISSN ONLINE: 2248-9509, is a peer-reviewed open access journal, published bimonthly with both online and print version. IJCH permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, EMBSAE; Google Scholar, Hinari, PubMed (Selected citations only*)

The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following:
CINAHL, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Indian Science Abstracts, IndMed, Scimago Journal Ranking, SCOPUS, Web of Science.

 Aim & Scope of the journal

The Journal is indexed with internationally reputed indexing agencies and publishes Editorial Commentaries, Viewpoints, Original articles, Review articles, Case studies, Book reviews, Letters to editor, Perspectives etc., dealing with priority and relevant public health issues to facilitate use of research for public health action. 

IJCH provides an avenue to medical scientists for publication of original research work so as to facilitate use of research for public health action. The scope of the Journal is broad. It invites quality research articles covering areas such as epidemiology, public health (administration, policy, planning & implementation), medical educational technology, nutrition, maternal & child health, communicable/ non communicable diseases, environmental / occupational health, health equity and equality, etc. with special emphasis on original research findings that are relevant for developing country perspectives including India.

The journal has a very transparent and robust system for reviewing articles with the help of editorial board / reviewers which include eminent scholars from India & abroad. It also publishes articles from other developing and developed nations, with an ultimate aim to contribute to the knowledge & practice of Public Health.