Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Discipline	Public health
Language	English
Edited  by	Terje Andreas Eikemo
Publication details
Former name(s)	Acta Socio-Medica Scandinavica; Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine
History	1973-present
Publisher	SAGE Publishing on behalf of the Associations of Public Health in the Nordic Countries
Frequency	8/year
Impact factor	3.4 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Scand. J. Public Health
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
CODEN	SJPHAJ
ISSN	1403-4948  (print) 1651-1905  (web)
OCLC  no.	644966353
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The Scandinavian Journal of Public Health is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the public health field. The editor-in-chief is Terje Andreas Eikemo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). The journal was established in 1969 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Associations of Public Health in the Nordic Countries.

History

The journal was established in 1969 as the Acta Socio-Medica Scandinavica. ^[1] It was renamed the Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine in 1973, ^[1] obtaining its current name in 1999. ^[2]

List of editors

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief of the journal:

• 1969: Gunnar Inghe  [ sv ]
• 1977: Ragnar Berfenstam  [ sv ]
• 1982: Lars Olov Bygren  [ sv ]
• 2000: Stig Wall
• 2008: Finn Kamper-Jørgensen
• 2012: Ingvar Karlberg
• 2016-present: Terje Andreas Eikemo

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, the Science Citation Index Expanded, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.4. ^[3]

References

1. Inghe, Gunnar (March 1973). "Introduction". Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine. 1 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1177/140349487300100101. ISSN   0300-8037.
2. "From Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine to Scandinavian Journal of Public Health: a change of name but not of vision". Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 27 (1): 1–2. March 1999. ISSN   1403-4948. PMID   10847662.
3. "Scandinavian Journal of Public Health". 2022 Journal Citation Reports (Science/Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2023 – via Web of Science.

External links

• Official website