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About the Journal

Social History of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It is committed to publishing work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines. The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes, critical assessments of archives and sources, conference reports, up-to-date information on research in progress, a discussion point on topics of current controversy and concern, review articles, and wide-ranging book reviews.

Abstracting and Indexing Services

Social History of Medicine is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services:

ABC CLIO - America: History and Life
CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
English Historical Review
Historical Abstracts
IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews
International Medieval Bibliography
ISI: Research Alert, Current Contents
Medline/Index Medicus - History of Medicine
Periodicals Contents Index
PsycInfo (American Psychological Association)
Sociological Abstracts
Wise for Medicine

IMPACT FACTOR AND RANKING


YearImpact FactorSi: History & Philosophy Of ScienceSsi: History & Philosophy Of Science
20080.43121 out of 4117 out of 32
20070.8096 out of 376 out of 29
20060.46815 out of 3513 out of 28

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