Preventive Medicine | |
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Abbreviated title (ISO) | Prev. Med. |
Discipline | Preventive medicine, public health |
Language | English |
Edited by | Alfredo Morabia |
Publication details | |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Publication history | 1972–present |
Frequency | Monthly |
Impact factor (2010) |
3.299 |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0091-7435 (print) 1096-0260 (web) |
LCCN | 72624344 |
CODEN | PVTMA3 |
OCLC number | 01605081 |
Links | |
Preventive Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier since 1972. It covers all aspects of preventive medicine and public health. The editor-in-chief is Alfredo Morabia (City University of New York).[1] The founding editor was Ernst Wynder.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in EMBASE, Scopus, Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, BIOSIS Previews, and Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. Its 2010 impact factor was 3.299, ranking it 20th among 151 journals in the category "General and Internal Medicine"[2] and 20th among 140 journals in the category "Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health".[3]