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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Professor Maged Nabih Kamel Boulos, MD, PhD, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Professor Lan Mu, PhD, University of Georgia, United States

Editorial Board
Philip AbdelMalik, PhD, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada
Professor Renato Assuncao, PhD, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Professor John G Breslin, PhD, University of Galway, Ireland
Professor Manfred Buchroithner (retired), PhD, Institut fur Kartographie, TU Dresden, Germany
Professor Ewart Carson, PhD, City University, United Kingdom
Steeve Ebener, PhD, World Health Organisation, Switzerland
Professor Alexander Stewart Fotheringham, PhD, Arizona State University, USA
Professor Jianya Gong, PhD, Wuhan University, China
Professor Sir J. A. Muir Gray, MD, Better Value Healthcare, UK
Professor Gary Higgs, PhD, School of Computing University of Glamorgan, UK
James Holt, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Richard Hoskins, MPH, University of Washington, USA
Rena Jones, PhD, National Cancer Institute, USA
Professor Dina N Kamel Boulos, PhD, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Omar Khan, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, USA
Keumseok Koh, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, China, People's Republic
Professor Martin Kulldorff, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Professor Andrew B Lawson, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Professor Markku Löytönen, PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland
Professor Marguerite Madden, PhD, Geography, University of Georgia, USA
Tony Mathys, MA, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lisel O'Dwyer, PhD, Flinders University, Australia
Bernd Resch, PhD, University of Salzburg, Austria
Abdul V Roudsari, PhD, University of Victoria, Canada
Professor Emeritus Gerard Rushton, PhD, The University of Iowa, USA
Ric Skinner, MD, Independent Consultant in Healthcare GIS, USA
Sadie J. Ryan, PhD, University of Florida, USA

Statistical Advisor
Professor Ezzeldin Ibrahim, MD, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia 

Annual Journal Metrics

Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 3.0
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.1
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.296
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.109

Speed 2023
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 3
Submission to acceptance (median days): 96

Usage 2023
Downloads: 736,127
Altmetric mentions: 398

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