Social Science & Medicine

Social Science & Medicine is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering social science research that is relevant to health. The disciplines covered by the journal include anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, social epidemiology, social policy, sociology, medicine, and health care practice, policy, and organization. The journal was established in 1967 and is published by Elsevier.

Social Science & Medicine

Discipline	Social sciences, health science
Language	English
Edited by	Susan J. Elliott
Publication details
History	1967–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Biweekly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	5.4 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Soc. Sci. Med.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0277-9536
LCCN	82643975
OCLC no.	609900358
Links
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History

Social Science & Medicine (ISSN 0037-7856) was published quarterly from 1967 to 1977 by Pergamon Press and was then split into:^[1][2]

• Social Science & Medicine. Part A: Medical Psychology & Medical Sociology (ISSN 0271-7123)
• Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology (ISSN 0160-7987)
• Social Science & Medicine. Part C: Medical Economics (ISSN 0160-7995)
• Social Science & Medicine. Part D: Medical Geography (ISSN 0160-8002)
• Social Science & Medicine. Part E: Medical Psychology (ISSN 0271-5384)
• Social Science & Medicine. Part F: Medical & Social Ethics (ISSN 0271-5392)

In 1982, Parts A-F were merged back into one journal. It was published by Pergamon Press, until that company was acquired by Elsevier in 1992.

Editor-in-Chief

• 2023 to Present – Susan J. Elliott, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada.^[3][4]
• 2012 to 2023 – Ichiro Kawachi and S.V. Subramanian, both at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.^[5]
• 2004 to 2012 – Ellen Annandale, Department of Sociology, University of York, UK.^[6]
• 1995 to 2004 – Sally Macintyre, MRC / CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK.^[7]
• 1967 to 1995 – Peter J. M. McEwan (Founding Editor).^[8]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• ASSIA
• Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases
• BIOSIS Previews
• CINAHL
• Current Contents/Health Services Administration
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
• EMBASE
• Elsevier BIOBASE
• Geographical Abstracts
• MEDLINE
• PASCAL
• Psychology Abstracts
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Sociological Abstracts
• Tropical Diseases Bulletin

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 5.379.^[9]

See also

• Occupational health psychology