About the Journal

The Palmyra Journal of Health Services and Management publishes peer-reviewed research on how health systems and health organisations are governed, financed, managed and improved: health policy and systems, hospital and health-services management, health economics, quality and patient safety, the health workforce and nursing management, and digital health.

It bridges management research and health-services research, and welcomes quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods work, including evaluations of reforms and programmes in resource-constrained settings.

Current status

Palmyra Journal of Health Services and Management is a journal in development. It is not yet open for submissions and has not yet published. It has no ISSN and is not indexed in any database; none is claimed. The journal opens once its Editor-in-Chief and an international editorial board have been appointed and confirmed.

Editorial board

The editorial board is being constituted. Named members, with their real institutional affiliations, will be listed here once each has confirmed appointment in writing. No name appears on this page without that confirmation.

Scholars interested in serving as an editor or reviewer are invited to write to editor@palmyrapub.org with a CV and a statement of expertise.

Peer review

All research submissions undergo double-anonymised peer review by at least two independent reviewers. Authors and reviewers are not made known to one another. The editor's decision is based on the reviewers' reports and on the manuscript's fit with the journal's aims and scope.

Manuscripts are first checked by the editorial office for scope, completeness, ethical declarations and similarity screening. Manuscripts that fail this check are returned without review.

The journal publishes on a continuous schedule of two issues per year. Review times depend on reviewer availability and are not guaranteed; this journal makes no promise of rapid acceptance.

Open access and charges

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.

There are no article processing charges (APCs) and no submission fees. The journal is published on a diamond open-access basis: costs are borne by the publisher, not by authors or readers.

Copyright and licensing

Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication.

Publication ethics and malpractice statement

This journal follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Editors decide on the basis of scholarly merit alone, without regard to the author's nationality, institution, gender or seniority. Submissions are screened for similarity; plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, image manipulation, duplicate submission and undisclosed conflicts of interest are grounds for rejection or, after publication, retraction.

Corrections and retractions are published openly and linked from the original article, which is never silently removed. Allegations of misconduct may be sent to editor@palmyrapub.org and will be investigated with the author's institution where appropriate.

The journal does not sell authorship, does not guarantee acceptance, and does not levy any charge on authors at any stage.

Research involving people and animals

The journal follows the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

• Research involving human participants, their data or tissue requires approval by a research ethics committee or institutional review board, named with its reference number in the manuscript, and must conform to the Declaration of Helsinki.
• Informed consent is required from participants, or from a parent or guardian, and is stated in the methods. Identifiable images or details of a patient require that patient's written consent to publication.
• Clinical trials must be registered in a WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform primary registry or ClinicalTrials.gov before the first participant is enrolled; the registration number is given at the end of the abstract.
• Research on animals requires institutional approval and is reported following the ARRIVE guidelines.

Publisher

Connexdotz Private Limited, trading as Palmyra Academic Press
Palmyra Academic Press, India · editor@palmyrapub.org