Preventive Medicine (journal)

*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	Prev. Med.
Indexing;
CODEN	PVTMA3
ISSN	0091-7435 (print); 1096-0260 (web);
LCCN	72624344
OCLC no.	01605081
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access;

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]

^ "Preventive Medicine Editorial Board". Elsevier. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: General and Internal Medicine". 2014 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health". 2014 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)