Call for Papers
What the journal is looking for, in the terms an author can act on.
Invitation
Submit your research to JWMH
Journal of Women's Mental Health welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians, and multidisciplinary teams working across women's mental health.
Regular submissions are accepted throughout the year. Read the instructions for authors.
Priorities
What the journal is looking for
These are the questions the editors would most like to see answered. They are priorities, not restrictions: any submission meeting the relevance test in the aims and scope is considered on its merits.
- Services and the treatment gap
- Studies of access, referral, continuity and workforce, particularly outside well-resourced urban settings, and particularly where a service change can be evaluated rather than only described.
- Recognition and diagnosis
- Work on differences in presentation, referral, diagnostic threshold and time to diagnosis — including in conditions where recognition in girls and women is often later.
- Treatment across reproductive stages
- Evidence on treatment in pregnancy and lactation, across the menstrual cycle, and through the menopausal transition, including safety, adherence and adverse effects.
- Trauma, violence and their sequelae
- Studies that follow consequences over time, and studies of what services actually do in response, reported with the safeguards the subject requires.
- Social and structural determinants
- Caregiving, income, employment, migration, education and discrimination examined as exposures with mental-health outcomes, rather than adjusted away as covariates.
- Measurement across populations
- Development, validation and cross-cultural adaptation of instruments, and evidence on how they perform across languages and settings.
- Under-represented settings and stages
- Research from middle- and low-income settings, and work on adolescence and later life, both of which are thin in the literature relative to their importance.
- Replication and negative findings
- Well-conducted studies that do not confirm an expected result, and replications of findings the field relies on.
Fit
Before you prepare a submission
State the mental-health question, the substantive contribution to understanding or improving mental health in women or girls, and the evidence your design can support. Studies can address one domain or several. A comparison with men, a unique female effect or a statistically significant sex difference is not required. If that sentence is difficult to write, it is worth asking the editorial office before preparing a submission rather than after.
Scope is assessed during initial editorial screening. A scope decision is separate from an assessment of scientific quality.
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How to submit, and related pages
| Route | Where |
|---|---|
| Primary route | ManuscriptZone |
| Alternative route | Simple manuscript submission form |
| Assisted route | [email protected] |
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript. All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- Aims and ScopeThe six domains, the relevance test and the boundaries.
- Instructions for AuthorsWhat to prepare before submitting.
- Submit a ManuscriptThe approved submission routes.
- ArchivesWhat the journal has published, as a guide to fit.
The Journal of Women's Mental Health (JWMH) is published by Open Access Pub under CC BY 4.0. Contact the editorial office.