About the Journal

The American Journal of Health Sciences (AJHS) publishes papers that significantly contribute to the understanding of the health sciences. Using a wide range of research methods including statistical analysis, analytical work, case studies, field research and historical analysis, articles examine significant research questions from a broad range of perspectives. The goal of AJHS is to publish papers devoted to the dissemination of health science practice, research, and education knowledge.

AJHS is a widely cited, completely open access journal that is an essential for health sciences education professionals and practitioners. Article topics may include but are not limited to all aspects of health services research, nursing education, management of health services, sports education, allocation of healthcare resources, evaluation of different health markets and health services organizations, international comparative analysis of health systems, health economics, and health policies and regulations.

AJHS is published twice a year. Months of distribution are: June and December.

Please cite this journal as “American Journal of Health Sciences” in your references.

• ABI Inform
• Directory of Research Journals Indexing
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
• Google Scholar
• J-Gate
• ProQuest
• Ulrich’s Periodicals

Policies

Authors, Editors, and members of the Editorial Team are expected to abide by all Clute Institute policies.

• Code of Publication Ethics

  High ethical standards for publishing are important to ensure authors receive credit for their work.

  We are devoted to upholding the highest standards of journal publication and conference presentation ethics. The Clute Institute, its editors, and members of all editorial teams are committed to objective and fair double-blind peer reviews of submitted manuscripts for journal publication and conference presentation. Manuscripts are evaluated for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.

  Authors submitting their manuscripts must attest that it is their original work and has not been plagiarized. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is unethical and unacceptable. Our authors, editors, and members of all editorial teams must comply with the Clute Institute Code of Ethics in all respects.

• Open Access

  As a condition of publication, the authors must grant the Clute Institute the right to disseminate their manuscript to the widest possible readership in print and electronic format. Authors must also agree to our open access policy, which is to provide immediate open access to our journals on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Users (which include among others, readers, authors, institutions, universities, libraries, organizations, associations, government entities etc) are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, remix, tweak, build upon, print, search, or link the full text of the articles in the journal provided that appropriate credit is given.

• Digital Preservation

  The Clute Institute is dedicated to the preservation of all manuscripts we publish. We believe that preserving the ground-breaking research published in our journals is not only good for the authors, but also for the next generation of researchers and scholars.

  All of our previously published manuscripts are stored on multiple servers around the globe via our Internet Service Provider. We are working with a dark archiving service to provide our authors with another way of ensuring the longevity of everything we publish. Under this arrangement, our published research will be available online and open access even if The Clute Institute were to cease operations.

• Plagiarism

  Authors should avoid submitting a paper for journal publication with text that is duplicated elsewhere without appropriate credit. The plagiarism of the works of another author is unethical, not to mention damaging to the reputation of the publisher, author, and the author’s institution. Articles containing plagiarism will be retracted from publication and will be reported to the proper authorities.

  Equally serious, but less obvious, is unintentional electronic copying and pasting of text without appropriate credit. Being found guilty of intentional plagiarism can negate a lifetime of achievements and needs to be taken very seriously. The Clute Institute scans every submitted article through plagiarism detection software and recommends that authors use their own software to ensure such errors do not occur.

  Alleged cases of plagiarism will be reviewed and retracted as necessary.

• Corrections/Retractions

  Errors on the part of authors and publishers are inevitable. If the error is material, a note will be placed at the end of the article indicating that a change has been made and what the change was. The purpose of the note is to preserve the integrity of the academic record.

  On rare occasions an article must be retracted due to plagiarism or errors so significant that the article cannot remain in print. When an article is retracted, a note will be posted in its place indicating that the article has been removed from publication. Cases of plagiarism are referred to the author’s institution.

• Copyrights

  We use the Creative Commons copyright license policy, CC-BY 3.0 US, to maximize the exposure of published manuscripts and remove access and reuse barriers. CC-BY 3.0 gives researchers the right to copy, share, copy, edit, transform, extend, or republish provided that appropriate credit is given. All copyrights remain with the authors; all we ask is for permission to publish.

  Prior to 2011, our published research was copyrighted by the Clute Institute. When we converted to open access in mid-2011, we republished all formerly published research using CC-BY 3.0, thus granting copyrights back to the original author(s). The original copy of this older published research (from publication year 1985 through mid-2011) will display the original Clute Institute copyright, including both hard copy and online versions.

• Advertising

   Along with our Article Processing Charges (APC), our journals are also funded in part by advertisements placed on our site.

• Re-Publication

  Occasionally an article is published of such importance that a second publisher desires to re-publish the article in one of their journals. Because authors retain the copyright, they may re-print their article in another journal provided that appropriate credit is given to the original publication.

• Journal Funding

  In mid-2011 we made the switch from subscription based publishing to open access. Today, with significantly shrinking library subscription revenue, journal operations are almost entirely funded by manuscript submission fees, Article Processing Charges (APC), and digital advertisements.

• Privacy Policy

  This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for the Clute Institute (www.cluteinstitute.com) and (www.clutejournals.com). This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

   

  Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

  We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

  We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order, email correspondence, make a payment.

  Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about conference and journal updates, new services, or changes to this privacy policy.

   

  Your Access to and Control Over Information

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  Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

  While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

   

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  Updates or amendments to the Privacy Policy

  We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time, in our sole discretion, and the most current version will always be posted on the website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.

   

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