Health Professions Journal (RRJoHP): Scope, Indexing and How to Publish in 2026

A physiotherapist who has spent two years collecting foot posture data on school teachers has fewer places to publish than a cardiologist with a similar dataset. Clinical medicine has hundreds of journals. Allied health has far fewer, and the big ones mostly want trials.

Research and Reviews: A Journal of Health Professions (RRJoHP) exists for that gap. It is a peer-reviewed, hybrid open access health professions journal published since 2011 by STM Journals, covering current and emerging health professions and advancements in healthcare delivery.

Here is what it publishes, where it is indexed, and how to submit.

What RRJoHP Covers

This health professions journal was launched to publish fundamental research across the full range of health professions — not only clinical medicine, but the disciplines that deliver and support care.

Both print and electronic ISSNs are registered, and every article receives a DOI. The full Focus and Scope is on the journal page.

Who This Health Professions Journal Is For

Read a recent issue and the readership becomes obvious. The work comes from physiotherapists, public health researchers, health management scholars and allied health academics — people whose research sits between clinical practice and health systems.

Five areas account for most of what gets published.

Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Musculoskeletal assessment, movement analysis, therapeutic exercise and rehabilitation outcomes. This is currently the strongest area in the journal, with recent work on posture, low back pain and pelvic floor training.

Public Health and Epidemiology

Disease burden, health disparities, access to care, and regional or demographic analysis of health outcomes.

Health Systems and Management

Health insurance, financial protection, service delivery, policy analysis and the administrative side of healthcare.

Nursing and Allied Health Practice

Clinical practice research from nursing, occupational therapy, diagnostics and other health professions.

Health Informatics and AI in Healthcare

Digital health platforms, AI-assisted diagnosis and screening, and the practical questions that come with them.

Recent Papers

Four examples that show the standard and the range.

Correlation Between Low Back Pain and Foot Posture Deviations in School Teachers of Navsari — Patel and colleagues examine low back pain in an occupational group that spends long periods standing, using the Foot Posture Index, Navicular Drop Test and Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale. A well-scoped physiotherapy study with validated instruments.

Impact of Pelvic-Floor Muscle Training on Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Narrative Review — Johns and Balakrishnan review pelvic floor muscle training, biofeedback and electrostimulation for a condition that affects women globally and is widely under-reported.

Recent Advances in Diabetes Management: A Gendered Approach in North India — Kamanda and co-authors examine glycemic control, healthcare access and urban-rural differences, with attention to the disproportionate burden among women.

The Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology: Augmenting Clinical Decision or Clinical Dependency? — Saha and Dutta look at AI screening for diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma, and raise automation bias as a practical concern rather than treating accuracy as the whole story.

The pattern: a defined population, validated instruments, and a question that matters to practice.

Indexing and Metrics

This health professions journal is indexed in nine databases — more than most journals at this tier. They are Advanced Science Index, Citefactor, Index Copernicus, Journal TOCs, Scientific Literature (SCILIT), SJIF, Genamics, Scientific Indexing Services and Google Scholar.

Journal TOCs is worth noting specifically. Health researchers use it to set table-of-contents alerts for their field, which means your paper reaches people who have already told a system they want work like yours.

Index Copernicus Value: 64.13 in 2019, 70.13 in 2020, 59.42 in 2023 and 68.42 in 2024.

SJIF:

Now the part that matters most for health research, stated directly: RRJoHP is not indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus or Web of Science. For clinical and biomedical work, PubMed indexing is often the deciding factor, because that is where clinicians and systematic reviewers search. If your institution, funder or thesis committee requires a PubMed-indexed or Scopus-indexed venue, this journal will not satisfy that requirement, and you should check before investing time in a submission.

What it does offer is broad general-index coverage, DOI assignment, and discoverability through Google Scholar and Journal TOCs for work that might otherwise go unpublished.

Who Runs the Journal

The Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Sohayla M. Attalla, Professor at Mansoura University, Egypt. The board consists of practising researchers internationally, and manuscripts are routed to editors with relevant expertise.

An editorial lead based outside India matters for a journal publishing largely Indian-origin research: it means the work is assessed against international health-professions standards rather than only regional ones.

How to Submit

Check that your work is health-professions research. A study with a defined population, a method and an outcome fits. A general essay on wellness or a policy opinion piece without data generally does not.

Follow the guidelines. The Author Guidelines and Instructions for Authors cover structure, references and figures.

Submit through the portal. Upload your manuscript, abstract, keywords and supplementary files via the manuscript submission system, which provides status tracking and direct contact with the editorial office.

Check the APC. As a hybrid open access journal, RRJoHP charges a processing fee for the open access route. See the Article Processing Charges page.

What Reviewers Will Look For

Health research manuscripts come back for a consistent set of reasons, and most are avoidable.

• Ethics approval stated. Institutional review board name, approval number, date. Any study involving human participants needs this, including questionnaire and observational studies.
• Informed consent documented, and anonymity of participants protected throughout.
• Sample size justified. How many participants, how you arrived at that number, and your inclusion and exclusion criteria.
• Validated instruments named with references. If you used a scale, cite its validation study and state its reliability in your population.
• Statistics appropriate and reported properly. Test used, assumptions checked, exact p-values, effect sizes and confidence intervals — not just significance.
• Study design stated plainly. Cross-sectional, cohort, case-control, pre-post. Do not leave reviewers to infer it.
• Limitations section that is honest. Sampling bias, single-centre design, self-reported data. Naming your limitations strengthens a paper.
• Clinical or practical relevance made explicit. What should a practitioner do differently after reading this?
• Current references, particularly for AI, digital health and anything where guidance changes quickly.

Conclusion

This health professions journal is not a substitute for a PubMed-indexed journal. If your work needs to reach clinicians through MEDLINE, or your institution requires Scopus or Web of Science, check that first and plan accordingly.

What this health professions journal offers is a realistic venue for allied health research that often struggles to find one: physiotherapy studies with modest sample sizes, public health analyses of specific regions or populations, health systems and management research, and practice-focused reviews. Fifteen years of continuous publication, registered print and electronic ISSNs, DOI assignment on every article, coverage in nine general indexes including Journal TOCs, and an international editorial lead make it a credible place to put that work.

For a physiotherapist, nurse, public health researcher or health management academic with a well-designed study and no obvious home for it, that combination is worth considering.

If that describes your work, read the author guidelines, work through the checklist above, and submit your manuscript.

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