Genc Burazeri, Sampath Emani, Ulrich Laaser, Transfer of the South Eastern European Journal of 

Public Health to the Netherlands Press. SEEJPH 2022. Posted: 21 March 2022 

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Transfer of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health to the 

Netherlands Press 

 

 

 
Genc Burazeri1,2, Sampath Emani3, Ulrich Laaser4 

 
1Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 
2Department of International Health, School CAPHRI (Care and Public Health Research Institute), 

Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 
3The Netherlands Press B.V. 
4Section of International Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, 

Germany. 

 

 

 

 

 

Corresponding author: 

Genc Burazeri 

Rr. “Dibres”, No. 371, Tirana, Albania; 

Email: genc.burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl 

POLICY BRIEF 

mailto:genc.burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl


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Public Health to the Netherlands Press. SEEJPH 2022. Posted: 21 March 2022 

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In 2014, the first volume of a new open 

access journal was published by Jacobs 

Publishing House, that is the South Eastern 

European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) 

[1]. The wide range of countries of the 

corresponding authors appearing in most 

volumes published in the SEEJPH represents 

the successful global orientation of SEEJPH 

[2]. In addition, more than half of all related 

articles are classified as original papers, and 

the average of four authors per represented 

paper is comforting [2]. 

With the new year 2023, however, the 

SEEJPH has been transferred from Jacobs 

Publishing House to the Netherlands Press, as 

the University of Bielefeld cannot host the 

Journal after the 31st of December 2022. 

The Journal’s design has been modernized 

but the mission remains as follows: 

“The South Eastern European Journal of 

Public Health (SEEJPH) is an open-access 

international peer-reviewed journal 

involving all areas of health sciences and 

public health. Devoted to global health 

SEEJPH welcomes submissions of scientists, 

researchers, and practitioners from all over 

the world, but particularly pertinent to 

southern and eastern countries in transition.” 

[3]. 

 

Professors Genc Burazeri and Ulrich Laaser 

will stay respectively as Executive and 

Founding Editors, and so will the Board of 

Editors, the Board of Regional Editors, the 

Advisory Editorial Board, and the Board of 

Emeritae and Emeriti. 

We have to thank our board members, 

authors, and readers for almost a decade of 

fullhearted and competent support and advice 

as well as the Library of the University of 

Bielefeld for the highly competent technical 

environment provided throughout these 

years. 

Of note, the transfer to a new publisher, 

which will eventually boost the impact of the 

journal, faces unavoidably some challenges 

related to transition of the online system, 

hosting issues, and other related 

technological problems. This is the “price” of 

any transfer which will ultimately materialize 

in a better profiling of the journal. We would, 

therefore, kindly ask for the patience and 

understanding of our network of 

collaborators and submitting authors. 

We look forward to a fruitful cooperation 

with the new publishing company and our 

global network! 



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© 2023 Genc Burazeri et al.; This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons 

Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and 

reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 

 

 

References 
 

1. The South Eastern European Journal 
of Public Health (SEEJPH), 

published by Jacobs Verlag, Hellweg 

72, D-32791 Lage, Germany. 

2. Petrela, K., et al., Survey exploring 
the opinion of corresponding authors 

of articles published in the South 

Eastern European Journal of Public 

 

Health during 2014-2021. South 

Eastern European Journal of Public 

Health, 2023. 

3. Holst, J., et al., Five years of the South 
Eastern European Journal of Public 

Health (SEEJPH): Focusing on 

health systems in transition and 

global health. South Eastern 

European Journal of Public Health, 

2023. 
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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