Focus and Scopes

The Indonesian Academia Health Sciences Journal (IAHS) is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary scientific journal dedicated to advancing knowledge, evidence-based practice, and innovation across the health sciences. Published quarterly (four issues per year), IAHS provides an international scholarly platform for the dissemination of high-quality and methodologically rigorous research addressing contemporary challenges in health, healthcare, and biomedical sciences.

IAHS welcomes original and innovative scholarly contributions from researchers, clinicians, healthcare professionals, academics, and other scholars working across diverse areas of health sciences. The journal promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and encourages contributions that generate meaningful implications for clinical practice, healthcare delivery, health policy, public health, and population well-being.

Areas of Interest

The journal welcomes research and scholarly contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Medicine and clinical sciences

• Nursing and nursing science

• Midwifery and women's health

• Physiotherapy and rehabilitation sciences

• Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences

• Medical laboratory sciences

• Public health and population health

• Epidemiology and biostatistics

• Health promotion and disease prevention

• Mental health and behavioral health

• Geriatrics and gerontology

• Maternal, child, and adolescent health

• Nutrition and dietetics

• Health services and health systems research

• Global and international health

• Occupational health and safety

• Environmental health

• Health informatics and digital health

• Biomedical sciences and translational research

• Allied health sciences

• Healthcare technology and innovation

• Clinical and community-based health research

IAHS particularly welcomes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies that integrate perspectives from different health sciences disciplines and address important clinical, public health, healthcare, or societal challenges.

The journal considers studies conducted in clinical, community, institutional, laboratory, population, and health-system settings, provided that they demonstrate clear scientific rationale, appropriate methodology, ethical integrity, and a meaningful contribution to the health sciences literature.

Article Types

IAHS considers a broad range of scholarly contributions, including:

• Original Research Articles

• Systematic Reviews

• Meta-Analyses

• Scoping Reviews

• Integrative Reviews

• Narrative Reviews

• Evidence Syntheses

• Clinical Research Articles

• Epidemiological Studies

• Methodological Articles

• Research Protocols

• Brief Reports

• Short Communications

• Case Reports

• Case Series

• Perspectives

• Commentaries

• Editorials

• Letters to the Editor

The suitability of each manuscript type is determined according to its scientific purpose, methodological rigor, and contribution to the journal's scope.

All manuscripts must demonstrate originality, scientific rigor, methodological transparency, ethical integrity, and relevance to the international health sciences community. Manuscripts are evaluated based on their scholarly merit rather than the academic status, institutional affiliation, or geographic location of the authors.

IAHS does not publish manuscripts solely for the purpose of fulfilling academic assignments, theses, student competitions, or other educational requirements. Manuscripts derived from such activities may be considered only when they are developed into independent scholarly contributions that meet the journal's editorial and peer-review standards.