Journal of Health and Social Behavior

*Journal of Health and Social Behavior*
Discipline	Medical sociology
Language	English
Edited by	Amy Burdette
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of Health and Human Behavior
History	1960-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	2.419 (2018)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Health Soc. Behav.
Indexing;
CODEN	JHSBA5
ISSN	0022-1465 (print); 2150-6000 (web);
LCCN	65003408
JSTOR	00221465
OCLC no.	1695738
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

The Journal of Health and Social Behavior is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association. It covers the application of sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health and illness and the organization of medicine and health care. The editor-in-chief is Amy Burdette (Florida State University). Previous editors-in-chief include Richard M. Carpiano (University of California, Riverside), Brian C. Kelly (Purdue University), Gilbert Gee (University of California, Los Angeles), Debra Umberson (University of Texas at Austin), Eliza Pavalko (Indiana University) and Michael Hughes.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in AgeLine, Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts, Education Resources Information Center, MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2.419, ranking it 20th out of 63 journals in the category "Psychology, Social"^[1] and 39th out of 164 journals in "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".^[2]

^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology, Social". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2018.
^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2018.

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