Indexing Identifiers

BCPHR — Indexing and Identifiers

BCPHR assigns persistent identifiers to every article and follows PIE-J recommendations for journal presentation. This page documents how to identify, cite, and locate BCPHR content.

Journal Identifiers

How to Identify BCPHR

Journal-Level Identifiers

Current title: Boston Congress of Public Health Review (BCPHR)
Current ISSN: 3068-8558 (effective 2025)
Former title: HPHR Journal (formerly Harvard Public Health Review)
Former ISSN: 2643-6450 (covers content 2013-2024)
DOI prefix: 10.54111
Publisher: Boston Congress of Public Health (501(c)(3) nonprofit)
OCLC number: assigned by the Library of Congress upon ISSN registration

Article-Level Identifiers

Every Article Has a Persistent Identifier

Every article published in BCPHR receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registered with CrossRef at the time of publication. The DOI is a permanent link to the article that will continue to resolve even if the journal website structure changes. Authors and citing publications should always reference articles by DOI rather than by URL.

How to Cite a BCPHR Article

Authors should cite BCPHR articles using the journal's full current title, the article DOI, and the author list as published. Example citation format: Author Last, Author First. (Year). Article Title. Boston Congress of Public Health Review, Volume(Issue), pages. https://doi.org/10.54111/[article-id]

Edition to Year Crosswalk

PIE-J Compliance: Finding Articles by Year

In accordance with the National Information Standards Organization PIE-J Recommended Practice (NISO RP-16-2013), BCPHR publishes a crosswalk between Edition numbers and publication years so that readers and indexing bodies can unambiguously identify when each article was published. This crosswalk is maintained on the BCPHR archive page.

Recent Editions

Editions 90+ (2026): published at bcphreview.org
Editions 85-89 (2025): published at bcphreview.org
Editions 78-84 (2024): published at bcphr.org as HPHR Journal
Editions 71-77 (2023): published at bcphr.org as HPHR Journal
Editions 60-70 (2022): published at bcphr.org as HPHR Journal
Earlier editions: see the full archive at bcphr.org/journal

Edition numbers and publication years are visible on every article landing page so that readers can immediately determine when an article was published.

Indexing Status

Where BCPHR Is Indexed

JSTOR (current)

CrossRef (DOI registry)

PubMed Central (in review)

Scopus (in review)

Web of Science (in review)

DOAJ (planned)

Long-Term Archiving

Preservation of the BCPHR Archive

BCPHR maintains its full publication archive across two domains: bcphr.org houses the legacy HPHR Journal archive (2013 to 2024); bcphreview.org houses the current BCPHR archive (2025 forward). Both domains are continuously archived through JSTOR. BCPHR is pursuing additional preservation through CLOCKSS and Portico to ensure long-term access to the scholarly record.

BCPHR Aligns with the Following International Publishing Standards. (Click to Open)

COPE Core Practices ICMJE Recommendations WAME Policies Declaration of Helsinki Foundation for Biomedical Research EQUATOR Network 16 Principles of Transparency PIE-J (NISO RP-16-2013)

What is PIE-J? PIE-J stands for Presentation & Identification of E-Journals, a National Information Standards Organization Recommended Practice (NISO RP-16-2013). It defines how online journals should present title history, ISSN, publication dates, and edition numbering so that librarians, indexing services, and citation databases can unambiguously identify and cite content. BCPHR follows PIE-J for its edition-to-year crosswalk and article-level identifier consistency, as recommended by PubMed Central.