Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Discipline	Medical sociology
Language	English
Edited by	Deborah Carr
Publication details
Former names	Journal of Health and Human Behavior
History	1960-present
Publisher	Sage Publishing on behalf of the American Sociological Association (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	3.6 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Health Soc. Behav.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	JHSBA5
ISSN	0022-1465 (print) 2150-6000 (web)
LCCN	65003408
JSTOR	00221465
OCLC no.	1695738
Links
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The Journal of Health and Social Behavior is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Sage Publishing 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 Deborah Carr (Boston University). Previous editors-in-chief include: Amy Burdette (Florida State University), 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.

External links

• Official website