European Journal of Epidemiology
Academic journal
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The European Journal of Epidemiology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases and their control. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Albert Hofman (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health). The journal was established in 1985 with Antiono Sanna as founding editor.[1]
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| Discipline | Epidemiology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Albert Hofman |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1985–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Hybrid | |
| 8.082 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Eur. J. Epidemiol. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0393-2990 (print) 1573-7284 (web) |
| OCLC no. | 740959212 |
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Editors-in-chief
Sanna served as editor for 6 years, until 1992. He was succeeded by Carlo Chezzi (1992–1994),[2] after which Claude Hannoun took over (1994–2002). Hannoun changed the direction of the journal, expanding the scope to include population health and non-communicable diseases.[3] Finally, Albert Hofman became editor in 2002.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- AGRICOLA
- Biological Abstracts[4]
- BIOSIS Previews[5]
- Current Contents/Life Sciences[5]
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine[5]
- EBSCO databases
- Elsevier Biobase
- Embase[6]
- Food Science and Technology Abstracts
- Global Health
- Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed[7]
- INIS Atomindex
- PASCAL
- ProQuest databases
- Science Citation Index Expanded[5]
- Scopus[8]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 6.529.[9]