title: Globalization and Health: developing the journal to advance the field.
abstract: Founded in 2005, Globalization and Health was the first open access global health journal. The journal has since expanded the field, and its influence, with the number of downloaded papers rising 17-fold, to over 4 million. Its ground-breaking papers, leading authors -including a Nobel Prize winner- and an impact factor of 2.25 place it among the top global health journals in the world. To mark the ten years since the journal's founding, we, members of the current editorial board, undertook a review of the journal's progress over the last decade. Through the application of an inductive thematic analysis, we systematically identified themes of research published in the journal from 2005 to 2014. We identify key areas the journal has promoted and consider these in the context of an existing framework, identify current gaps in global health research and highlight areas we, as a journal, would like to see strengthened.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. drgregmartin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Malcolm.maclachlan@tcd.ie.|School of Psychology, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Malcolm.maclachlan@tcd.ie.|Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Malcolm.maclachlan@tcd.ie.|Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Malcolm.maclachlan@tcd.ie.
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: MacLachlan
authors.affiliation: School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Labonté
authors.affiliation: Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.|School of Medicine, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Larkan
authors.affiliation: Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.|School of Psychology, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Frédérique
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vallières
authors.affiliation: Masters in Global Mental Health Programme, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
authors.forename: Niamh
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bergin
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D014943:Global Health / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing