Reproductive, Female and Child Health (RFCH) is a multi-disciplinary journal that aims to improve clinical practice in reproductive, female, and child health. Journal content will highlight the interaction between preconception parental health, pregnancy, and fetal and child development. Reproductive health is a rapidly developing health care discipline, and its importance is recognized in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which include targets to reduce global maternal, neonatal and child mortality and ensure universal access to reproductive healthcare services by 2030.

The journal highlights the continuum of all related areas of reproductive health, including longitudinal studies from prior-to-conception to pre-school childhood, serving all disciplines in the reproductive health research community. The editors encourage contributions relating to human reproduction and reproductive systems, including male and female fertility, obstetrics, gynaecology, fetal and neonatal medicine, genetics, congenital disorders, and topics within paediatrics that relate to reproductive care.

One of the overriding aims of RFCH is to support "Sound Science Criteria". This means that every piece of research that has been conducted in a sound and rigorous manner should be published somewhere. Sound science journals such as RFCH publish research on common but important issues, with a focus on quality rather than perceived novelty or (citation) impact. With sound science, the collective mission is to ensure there’s a home for every paper and to deliver rapid decisions for authors. Examples of research outputs include:

• Confirmatory research;

• Replication studies;

• Negative results;

• Research building on existing work.


RFCH publishes a range of article types, including original research, systematic reviews, epidemiological studies, clinical trials, translational research, implementation science, quality improvement and commentaries.

RFCH is a Wiley Open Access journal, one of a series of peer reviewed titles publishing quality research with speed and efficiency. For further information visit the Wiley Open Access website. RFCH accepts direct submissions as well as referrals from other Wiley titles.