The Health Sciences (HSA) is an Australian general medical journal. We publish high quality research and commentary to inform health policy and influence medical practice in Australia.

The HSA expert Editorial team is led by Dr Ammad Ali. We aim to provide authors with a constructive, collaborative process during peer review and publication.

We believe that journals should be measured by a range of metrics. The HSA is in progress to get registered and  indexed in PubMed and major medical and scientific journal indices including:

CAB Abstracts (CABI)
Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate)
Current Contents (Clinical Medicine & Life Sciences, Clarivate)
Essential Science Indicators (Clinical Medicine, Clarivate)
CINAHL (Core, EBSCO)
Embase (Elsevier)
Scopus (Elsevier)
MEDLINE (NLM) 

HSA articles are highly cited in research articles and policy documents.

The HSA welcomes articles in all these categories. Please read our Instructions for authors carefully before submitting an article.

Free and open access to research articles

The HSA encourages the highest quality of research, and believes research must be able to be easily and rapidly disseminated to all who might benefit from it. From Nov 2024, all HSA research articles are freely available online. The HSA has a strong commitment to Australian Indigenous health, and makes all Indigenous health articles free to access. Authors can now make their paper open access can be via repository-based open access (there is no cost for this, though there is a 12-month embargo) or journal based immediate open access, which is made available through the HSA’s publishing partner, Wiley, and is subject to the payment of article processing charges.