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About the Journal

The International Journal of Epidemiology is an essential requirement for anyone who needs to keep up to date with epidemiological advances and new developments throughout the world.


It encourages communication among those engaged in the research, teaching, and application of epidemiology of both communicable and non-communicable disease, including research into health services and medical care.


Also covered are new methods, epidemiological and statistical, for the analysis of data used by those who practise social and preventive medicine. The International Journal of Epidemiology is published six times yearly.

Impact Factor

4.517 (2006)
4.054 (2005)
3.735 (2004)
3.289 (2003)
2.368 (2002)
1.899 (2001)
1.892 (2000)
1.974 (1999)


CATEGORY: Public, Environmental and Occupational Health (Science Citation Index)
Rank: 7/98 (2006)
Rank: 6/99 (2005)
Rank: 7/93 (2004)
Rank: 7/89 (2003)
Rank: 13/90 (2002)
Rank: 22/88 (2001)
Rank: 22/87 (2000)
Rank: 15/84 (1999)


This information is taken from the Journal Citation Reports, published annually as part of the Science Citation Index by ISI.

Abstracting and Indexing Services


The journal is covered by the following major indexing services:


BIOSIS
Current Contents: Clinical Medicine
Current Contents: Life Sciences
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
Medline (Index Medicus)
Reference Update
Science Citation Index