Value in Health
Value in Health, ISPOR's preeminent health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) journal, is a high-impact, indexed journal that publishes papers that make a substantial contribution to the literature by presenting novel research that advances the science of HEOR globally. Value in Health also publishes ISPOR's Good Practices Reports that provide seminal guidance in the conduct and methodology used in HEOR studies.
High Impact and Ranking
The journal’s current impact factor is 4.5 and its 5-year impact factor score is now 6.2. A high impact and highly ranked publication, Value in Health is ranked 8th of 87 journals in Health Policy & Services; 21st of 106 journals in Health Care Sciences & Services; and 69th of 380 journals in Economics. Value in Health is a monthly publication that circulates to 10,000 readers around the world.
Did You Know You May Be Eligible for Fee Waivers or Discounts to Publish Your Article as Open Access?
Publishing your work as gold open access means that millions of researchers globally will be able to find and read your work, completely free. Your work is also included in relevant indexes and databases, making it discoverable, accessible, and citable by other researchers and readers around the world.
While there is a fee to publish open access, the number of open access agreements Elsevier has reached with various institutions could mean that the fees may be covered or discounted. To see if your institution has a funding arrangement with Elsevier, click here.
If your institution isn't covered by one of Elsevier's open access agreements, you should know that ISPOR members receive a discount on article processing charges if they choose to publish their paper as a gold open access article (see below for more information).
That said, not all articles published in Value in Health require a fee. Authors have 2 options to publish their research in Value in Health.
| Gold Open Access | Subscription | |
| Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. | Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups Elsevier’s access programs. | |
| An open access publication fee is payable by authors or their research funder. | No open access publication fee. | |
Your publication choice will have no effect on the peer-review process or acceptance of your submission.
25% Discount for ISPOR Members
Did you know that ISPOR members receive a 25% discount on open access publishing fees? The cost of membership more than pays for itself for researchers who maintain or become ISPOR members and expect to publish at least 1 open access article a year in Value in Health.
New Author Disclosure Platform
Conflict of Interest Disclosures
All authors of Value in Health and Value in Health Regional Issues articles must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work prior to publication of their manuscript in an ISPOR journal. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, grants, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, board memberships, professional writing assistance, etc.
Disclosure represents a commitment to transparency and does not necessarily indicate a bias. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflicts of interest to declare, they must also state this during the submission process. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
Disclosure Process
Each author is required to complete a Conflict of Interest (COI) Disclosure questionnaire. ISPOR journals use Convey: A Global Disclosure System to facilitate the disclosure process. Convey is a service run by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that provides the ability to securely record and maintain your own financial interests and disclosure history.
Upon first use of Convey, you will be invited to create a free AAMC Convey account (if you do not already have an existing AAMC account*) to enter your financial interests; after that, you will be able to use the same login and your saved interests to generate disclosures for any ISPOR journal or other journal or organization using Convey.
*if you believe you have an existing AAMC account and do not remember your login credentials, please reset your username/ password. For additional support with your AAMC account, please contact Convey Technical Support.
When you receive an invitation to complete your disclosures, the Convey platform will guide you through the disclosure requirements for your submission to ISPOR’s journals and will submit only the information needed for each manuscript.
Here is a brief description of the COI disclosure process:
- When the Editors invite you to submit a revised manuscript, the Convey system will send an email to each author with a unique link that allows you to create a Convey account and complete the COI disclosure form.
- By clicking the link included in the email, authors will be redirected to Convey/AAMC site where they can create an account, log in, and complete their COI disclosure form. Please note that the login credentials for Convey/AAMC will be different from the login credentials for the ISPOR ScholarOne sites.
- Complete all parts of the COI disclosure questionnaire and click “Submit” when finished.
- Following completion, authors see a pop-up message letting them know that their form has been successfully submitted to the system.
Note: If you return to the original email that contains the unique link to the Convey system and click the link after you submit your form, the system will assume that you want to modify your disclosure and will mark your form as "not yet submitted in the system. In which case, you would need to go back into the Convey system and resubmit your form.
Watch this instructional video for more detailed information about how to use the Convey disclosure tool: