Preventive Medicine

Discipline	Preventive medicine, public health
Language	English
Edited by	Eduardo L. Franco
Publication details
History	1972–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	4.018 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Prev. Med.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	PVTMA3
ISSN	0091-7435 (print) 1096-0260 (web)
LCCN	72624344
OCLC no.	01605081
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Preventive Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier since 1972. It covers all aspects of preventive medicine and public health. The editor-in-chief is Luisa N. Borrell (City University of New York City).^[1] The founding editor was Ernst Wynder.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EMBASE, Scopus, Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, BIOSIS Previews, and Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. Its 2014 impact factor was 3.086, ranking it 25th among 153 journals in the category "General and Internal Medicine"^[2] and 31st among 162 journals in the category "Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health".^[3]