SAGE to publish Health Environments Research & Design Journal

Los Angeles, US. SAGE is delighted to announce that it will begin publishing Health Environments Research & Design (HERD), a journal that publishes research on the relationships among health and environmental design and organizational, provider, and patient outcomes.

“Our change to SAGE is a welcomed transition that will facilitate HERD's maturity as a scholarly journal,” wrote Jaynelle F. Stichler, Co-Editor of HERD. “The resources that SAGE offers will allow HERD to be more widely promoted to our targeted audiences of architects, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects, clinicians, healthcare decision makers, academic and practice researchers, authorities having jurisdiction, and university libraries world-wide.

HERD publishes evidence-based articles and research papers, opinion papers, theory papers, meta-analysis/metasynthesis, book reviews, case studies, independent post-occupancy evaluations, letters to the editors, and responses to letters/papers that come from both academic sources and applied research in practice.

“HERD was one of the first journals to focus on both healthcare research and evidence-based design, and SAGE is proud to add it to our journals portfolio,” said Bob Howard, Vice President of Journals at SAGE. “Since it launched more than eight years ago, the journal has helped to bridge the gap between research and practice to guide design decisions in the field. We are confident that as its publisher, we can support the growth of its impact.”

The journal will continue to be affiliated with the Center for Health Design.

Dr. Stichler continued, “The SAGE and HERD editorial teams have already made a smooth transition and have become a great team preparing each issue with fresh new content and with plans to solicit new authors and researchers for future issues. SAGE offers many resources with a host of editorial, marketing and publishing experts to catapult HERD to new levels of success and with a wide array of scholarly and academic journals that complement HERD. We are grateful for the opportunity to move to the next life cycle period for HERD.”