Public and Health Economics (PHHE) is an international scholarly journal covering all fields of public health and health economics. It is a peer reviewed journal published quarterly. Theoretical and empirical works from national and international academics focusing any field of public health or/and health economics are considered for publications. Its broad areas include, but not limited to, environmental health, health insurance, health policy analysis, health care management, health services research, health economics, health sociology, health psychology. The Journal prefers evidence-based articles with solid and sound methodology, clinical application, description of best clinical practices, and discussion of relevant professional issues or perspectives. Articles be submitted in the form of research articles, reviews, case reports, and letters to the editor or commentaries.

Economic Thinking is a peer-reviewed journal. All articles submitted to the Journal need to pass the review process before publishing. Peer review is important to maintain the quality and integrity of scientific and scholarly research. In our peer review policy, firstly the articles will be scrutinized and evaluated by the editorial team, if it is according to the scope of the journal and of good quality then section editor will forward it to two reviewers for peer review. The section editor will ensure the reviewer’s areas of expertise is similar to the scope of the paper and review process is completed without potential conflicts of interests. If section editor does not find a specific reviewer for the submitted manuscript, he will search for another specialist of the topic of equal repute and based on his/her expertise in his/her field. The reviewers will return their recommendations and reports to the section editor, providing general comments to the editor and both general and specific comments to the author(s). Constructive comments that might help the authors improve their work are passed on anonymously (even if the editor does not accept the submitted manuscript). After that, the editor assesses them collectively, and then decides, either on his/her own or in consultation with other editors on whether to reject the manuscript. The final decision on acceptability for publication lies with the Editors-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief will communicate the overall result of the evaluation (rejected, accepted or accepted with modifications), including the reviewer’s comments. Revised manuscripts may be subject to further peer review if appropriate.

Economic Thought is dedicated to promoting openness in academic publishing and fostering the social and collaborative dimensions of research. After initial editorial screening to ensure submissions align with the journal’s scope and meet professional standards, qualifying papers (with named authors) are placed on the journal’s Open Peer Discussion forum. There, they undergo open peer review for a minimum of eight weeks, encouraging community comment and scholarly debate. Editors may also seek additional feedback or expert reviews during this period.

Economic Thinking publishes four regular issues a year (from 2025 onwards). Occasionally, it can publish special issues about specific research themes. These special issues can have specific editors. For these special issues, specific calls for papers will be announced.

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 is no submission or publication fee for this Journal.

Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors using the below form. Submission of authors will get paper ID number which can be used for future correspondence. Papers must contain original work. The submission means that the article’s has been approved by all authors.

Before you submit your manuscript kindly read the below lines carefully. Two separate Microsoft word files are required from corresponding/Submission author.

A concise yet comprehensive title not more than 20 words (no abbreviation in the title).

Structured Abstract (maximum 350 words)

Manuscript must be in English language only and may be submitted in free format

Your entire submission (excluding references, tables and figures) should be a double-spaced in 12-pitch, Times New Roman style/font.
Footnotes or endnotes are not welcomed.

Table and Figures should be placed within the text at appropriate place.
Tables and figures should contain self-explanatory/comprehensive captions. They must be number consecutively.
The word counts excluding title, abstract, tables, figures, and references, should not exceed 4,000 words.

Initially you may use any reference style however, APA style is preferred  

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Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. It is mandatory that all the parties involved in the publishing process (the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the publishing society) agree to these standards.

Authors should present only their original contribution. All the findings should be accurately reported based on real data. Data sources and construction of variables must be mentioned clearly for replication of the analysis at any later stage. Any unethical behaviour may lead to retraction of the article.

From authors entirely original work is expected. The work borrowed from others must be cited or quoted appropriately.  Plagiarism in any form like paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper, ‘passing off’ another’s paper as the author’s own paper and to claiming results from research conducted by others constitute unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. In addition, submitting the same article concurrently to more than one journal is also considered an unethical practice and is unacceptable

A significant contribution to the paper is the key criteria for authorship. The others help need to be acknowledged or listed as contributors.  The corresponding author is responsible to seek consent and approval of the final version of the article to be submitted for publication.

Any type of conflicts of interest, minor or major, among the authors that can substantially influence the outcome of the research must be stated clearly. Funding support if any need to be acknowledged.  Few examples of conflicts of interest could be patent applications/registrations, grants or other funding, honoraria, paid expert testimony, employment, consultancies and stock ownership

If author/s found significant error or inaccuracy in the published paper, it must be reported promptly to the journal editor/publisher and cooperate with the stakeholders to retract or correct the article. In case if the error is mentioned by third party, the author is supposed to cooperate with the editor to correct or retract the paper.