Health Education & Behavior

Health Education & Behavior is a bimonthly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering applied behavioral and social science in public health published by SAGE Publications. It is an official journal of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE).

Health Education & Behavior
DisciplinePublic health, education
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJesus Ramirez-Valles
Publication details
Former name(s)
Health Education Quarterly, Health Education Monographs
History1973-present
Publisher
FrequencyBimonthly
4.444 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Health Educ. Behav.
Indexing
CODENHEDBFS
ISSN1090-1981 (print)
1552-6127 (web)
LCCNsn96-2571
OCLC no.35233880
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History

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The journal was established in 1957 as Health Education Monographs which was produced on an occasional basis with no set publishing schedule until 1974, when it became a quarterly publication with standard volume numbering and pagination.[1] The first issue of 1974 became volume 2, issue 1. All previous issues covering issues 1 to 36, from 1957 to 1973, were designated to constitute volume 1. During this period, Health Education Monographs was printed by various small publishing companies or cooperatively by SOPHE and the World Health Organization. No volume was published in 1979 due to extensive ongoing changes, including a new publisher, editor, and format.[1]

In 1980, the journal was renamed Health Education Quarterly and a publication agreement was negotiated with Human Sciences Press.[1] John Wiley & Sons became the publisher with volume 10 in 1983 and the journal changed to its present publisher, SAGE Publications, in 1995. In 1997, the journal expanded to six issues annually to accommodate the growing volume of submissions and was renamed Health Education & Behavior.[1]

Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed by CAB Abstracts, CINAHL, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Global Health, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, ProQuest databases, Psychological Abstracts, PsycINFO, PsycLIT, SafetyLit, Scopus, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Sociological Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2020 2-year impact factor is 4.444.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Zimmerman, M. A. (2016-07-01). "Message From the Editor". Health Education & Behavior. 25 (1): 5–7. doi:10.1177/109019819802500101.
  2. ^ "Journal Indexing and Metrics". SAGE Journals. 2022.
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