| This Guide for Authors contains useful information on requirements for submission: HNP Peer-Reviewed Publication Series This series is produced by the Health, Nutrition, and Population Family (HNP) of the World Bank's Human Development Network. It provides a vehicle for publishing polished material on the Bank's work in the HNP Sector, for consolidating previous informal publications, and for improving the standard for quality control, peer review, and dissemination of high quality analytical work. The series focuses on publications that expand our knowledge of HNP policy and strategic issues that can improve outcomes for the poor and protect vulnerable populations against the impoverishing effects of illness. Best practice examples of both global and regional relevance are presented through thematic reviews, analytical work, and case studies. Enquiries about the series and submissions should be made directly to the Editor in Chief. Submissions should have been previously reviewed and cleared by the sponsoring department which will bear the cost of publication. Submissions that will be considered for publication will be subjected to an additional double blind review process which is supervised by members of the Editorial Committee (or in exceptional cases an open Bank-wide review with comments from two reviewers that have not worked on the publication being reviewed). The review process typically takes 6 weeks to 3 months depending on the length and complexity of material presented in the draft. Following the review process, authors will have the option of making recommended revisions or requesting information about alternative options for publishing their work. Publications in this series are sold by the Bank's External Publications unit and must therefore meet commercial as well as technical criteria such as page length (minimum of around 80 single-spaced manuscript pages), topic (of interest to a broad range of readers), and readability (some manuscripts may need additional work to improve written English and presentation of material). Authors are encouraged to visit the on-line Writer's Workshop for presentation of footnotes and bibliographic material and the Economist Style Guide for a succinct writing style, as well as other styles listed below. Although documents will be re-formatted during the publication process, authors should submit three advanced hardcopy drafts that will be easy to review. Submission of rough drafts may be returned to authors for more work before being accepted for the formal review process. Also, please include an electronic version of your paper as well as a PDF file. The Editor in Chief of the series is Alexander S. Preker (apreker@worldbank.org). Other members of the Editorial Committee are Mukesh Chawla, Mariam Claeson, Shantayanan Devarajan, A. Edward Elmendorf, Armin H. Fidler, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Peter F. Heywood, Gerard Martin La Forgia, Jack Langenbrunner, Maureen Lewis, Samuel S. Lieberman, Benjamin Loevinsohn, Elizabeth Lule, Akiko Maeda, Thomas W. Merrick, Ok Pannenborg, Oscar Picazo, George Schieber, Adam Wagstaff. ATTENTION AUTHORS: Please do not forget to include the signed submission form and a diskette or CD with the electronic version of your paper, along with two hardcopies. HNP Informal Discussion Papers
This series is produced by the Health, Nutrition, and Population Family (HNP) of the World Bank's Human Development Network. The papers in this series aim to provide a vehicle for publishing preliminary and unpolished results on HNP topics to encourage discussion and debate. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author(s) and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. Citation and the use of material presented in this series should take into account this provisional character. For free copies of papers in this series please contact the individual authors whose name appears on the paper. Enquiries about the series and submissions should be made directly to the Editor, Homira Nassery (hnassery@worldbank.org). Submissions should have been previously reviewed and cleared by the sponsoring department which will bear the cost of publication. No additional reviews will be undertaken after submission. The sponsoring department and authors bear full responsibility for the quality of the technical contents and presentation of material in the series. Since the material will be published as presented, authors should submit an electronic copy in a predefined format (click here to download the template for an HNP Discussion Paper). Rough drafts that do not meet minimum presentational standards may be returned to authors for more work before being accepted. Authors are encouraged to visit the on-line Writer's Workshop for presentation of footnotes and bibliographic material and the Economist Style Guide for a succinct writing style, as well as other styles listed below. Publication typically takes no more than 2-3 weeks after submission. Publications in this series are provided free of charge by the author whose name appears on the cover of the publication. Click here for complete report of Informal Discussion Paper procedures. (Note: for staff only) Authorship The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has provided the following guidelines for authorship, summarized below: All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. Authorship credit should be based only on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Conditions 1, 2, and 3 must all be met. Acquisition of funding, the collection of data, or general supervision of the research group, by themselves, do not justify authorship. Authors should provide a description of what each contributed, and editors should publish that information. All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments, and what they did should be described. Increasingly, authorship of multicenter trials is attributed to a group. All members of the group who are named as authors should fully meet the above criteria for authorship. Group members who do not meet these criteria should be listed, with their permission, in the Acknowledgments or in an appendix. The order of authorship on the byline should be a joint decision of the coauthors. Authors should be prepared to explain the order in which authors are listed. Style Guides While preparing your papers for submission, please use one of the following referencing styles: Journal Impact Rating Selected medical & health journals--1997, list comprises 4894 scientific journals
http://erclib.vet.unibo.it/ita/banchedati/impact/ What is a journal impact factor?
http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/journalcitationreports/impactfactor/ The impact factor of an article is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. The impact factor of a journal is a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. It's calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years (see Figure 1). Figure 1: Calculation for journal impact factor.
A= total cites in 1992
B= 1992 cites to articles published in 1990-91 (this is a subset of A)
C= number of articles published in 1990-91
D= B/C = 1992 impact factor
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