About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Health and Research Journal (HealthResJ) is ambitious to disseminate information, scholarship and experience in education, practice and investigation between medicine, nursing and all the sciences involved in health care.
Aim of journal is to supply scientists of health with resources in order to provide scientific and intellectual knowledge and research, especially to improve health status and qualify of care for individuals, families and communities.
The journal publishes original papers, reviews, special and general articles, case management etc. and there is no author charges.
Peer Review Process
Every submitted manuscript is evaluated by at least two (2) independent reviewers under a double-blind peer review model. In case of disagreement, an additional reviewer may be invited. Reviewer identities remain strictly confidential.
Authors are informed of the editorial decision as soon as the review process is completed. Indicative timelines and decision stages are described on the Peer Review & Editorial Process page. Manuscripts may be returned for revision prior to publication, and revision deadlines are set by the Handling Editor depending on the extent of the requested changes.
Publication Frequency
The journal is published quarterly. Articles may be published online as soon as they are ready and are subsequently assigned to an issue.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Abstracted/Indexed in
The journal is indexed/covered in EBSCOhost: Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), and is discoverable via Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAIRE.
All articles are assigned DOIs. DOI registration is provided via Crossref through the National Documentation Centre (EKT).
HealthResJ is also using the DOI system and is Researchgate discoverable.
ePublisher
The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.
EKT’s vision is “Access to Knowledge”. To this end it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.
EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities . Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.
EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.
Sources of Support
Education and research are the two poles that compose the physiognomy of each science. Nursing must go hand in hand with the rapid developments of the day if it wants to play an essential role in scientific becoming.
Hellenic Society of Nursing Research and Education hopes that by creating a channel of communication with the Nurses will be able to contribute, as far as possible, to the strengthening of continuing education and research.
Journal History
Health and Research Journal (HealthResJ) appears in 2015 with the aim of publishing postgraduate theses of the master’s degree programs in Intensive Care Units, as publication of the thesis is a necessary prerequisite, according to the study guide.
Along the way, the Journal also opens its doors to the whole scientific world in the field of health. It has only been published in English since 2019 and this was considered necessary as science has no boundaries and the editors believe that it should be governed by free access rules.
It is published by the MSc of "Intensive Care Units" of the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is supported by the Hellenic Society for Nursing Research and Education (EENEE) and the Hellenic Society of Ergospirometry, Exercise and Rehabilitation (ELERGA).
Significant impetus for the upgrade of HealthResJ provides and ensures its integration into the National Documentation Center (EKT) platform.
