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.
Impact Factor
In the 2006 ISI Journal Citation Reports, the impact factor for Social History of Medicine is 0.468 (Ranked 13/28 in the Social Science Index of History and Philosophy of Science)
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
