RealClearFoundation Launches the Journal of the Academy of Public Health
The RealClearFoundation announces today the launch of the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, a revolutionary new scientific journal publishing cutting-edge, peer-reviewed and open access research from the world’s leading scholars of epidemiology, vaccinology, global public health, health policy and related disciplines.
The Journal was co-founded by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, formerly of Harvard University. Their shared vision is presented in Dr. Kulldorff’s inaugural paper, “The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward.”
The Journal of the Academy of Public Health is led by Dr. Kulldorff and Dr. Andrew Noymer, of UC Irvine, as co-Editors-in-Chief. Drs. Kulldorff and Noymer are joined by an Editorial Board of leading public health scholars from a diversity of countries and research specialties, including Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford, and Dr. Peter Gøtzsche of the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Bhattacharya is on leave from the JAPH.
The inaugural issue of the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, published online today, includes original peer-reviewed research as well as essays on the state of public health as a global discipline and a review of previously published vaccine literature.
The Journal of the Academy of Public Health has Four Pillars that distinguish it:
- Open access, so that scientific articles can be read by all scientists and anyone in the public.
- Open peer reviews that anyone can read at the same time as they read articles; signed by the reviewer.
- Rewarding reviewers with an honorarium and public acknowledgement.
- Removal of article gatekeeping, letting the Academy of Public Health’s distinguished scientists freely publish all their research results in a timely and efficient manner, together with their associated peer reviews.
Taken together, these methods constitute an innovative approach to scientific publishing that will promote intellectual accountability, viewpoint diversity, and fair editorial practices.
The RealClearFoundation is a donor-financed 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that carries out journalistic and educational programs in the public interest. JAPH is a nonprofit journal subsidiary.
“This paper by Dr. Kulldorff lays out the theory, and the Journal of the Academy of Public Health the practical proof of concept. We now have a transformative piece of publishing tech, and we aim to give it a waterfront expression, starting with Public Health.” – David DesRosiers, President of the RealClearFoundation.
For more information on the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, please contact the Managing Editor at editor@rcjpublichealth.org.
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