Discover Health Systems

We are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2025 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

We are recruiting new Editorial Board Members.

Looking to publish in a Discover journal? Springer Nature provides interactive tutorials to help you as an author write the best article possible by providing points to consider, from your background reading and study design to manuscript structuring and figure preparation. Find out more.

In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Health Systems. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:

• Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review 
• Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level 
• Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.

See the full range of benefits of In Review and how to opt-in

See what the In Review platform looks like