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The journal impact factors below are derived from Thomson Reuters 2011 Journal Citation Reports. For more comprehensive author information, click journal titles.

Journal TitleImpact Factor
Academic Emergency Medicine1.861
Accident Analysis and Prevention1.867
Addiction4.145
Addictive Behaviors2.085
Administrative Science Quarterly4.212
Age and Ageing3.090
Ageing and Society1.165
Ageing International
Ageing Research Reviews6.174
Aggression and Violent Behavior2.740
Aging & Mental Health1.368
AIDS6.245
AIDS and Behavior3.494
AIDS Care1.603
AIDS Education and Prevention1.59
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research3.343
Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders2.811
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
American Economic Review2.693
American Educational Research Journal3.393
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition6.669
American Journal of Community Psychology1.736
American Journal of Criminal Justice
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse1.372
American Journal of Education0.744
American Journal of Epidemiology5.216
American Journal of Evaluation2.022
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry3.638
American Journal of Human Biology2.267
American Journal of Managed Care2.458
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology3.468
American Journal of Political Science2.756
American Journal of Preventive Medicine4.044
American Journal of Psychiatry12.539
American Journal of Public Health3.926
American Journal of Sociology3.169
American Political Science Review3.050
American Psychologist6.869
American Sociological Review4.422
American Statistician0.960
Annals of Behavioral Medicine4.200
Annals of Emergency Medicine4.133
Annals of Epidemiology3.215
Annals of Internal Medicine16.733
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science1.006
Annals of the Association of American Geographers2.173
Annals of the New York Academy of Science3.155
Annual Review of Psychology16.833
Anthropological Forum0.360
Anthropology & Medicine
Applied Cognitive Psychology1.667
Applied Research in Quality of Life0.744
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
Archives of General Psychiatry12.016
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine4.140
Archives of Sexual Behavior3.525
Asia-Pacific Population Journal
Asian Ethnicity
Asian Journal of Criminology
Asian Population Studies
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy0.550
Behavioral and Brain Sciences9.396
Biodemography and Social Biology0.520
Biometrics1.827
Biometrika1.912
BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology3.407
BMC Women's Health
BMJ: British Medical Journal14.093
British Journal of Sociology1.621
Child Development4.718
Child Indicators Research0.985
Children and Youth Services Review1.269
China Economic Review0.941
China Quarterly1.277
Cities1.143
City and Community1.095
City, culture and society
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review3.132
Community Development
Community Development Journal0.689
Community, Work, & Family
Comparative Education0.696
Comparative Education Review0.757
Conservation Biology4.692
Continuity and Change0.571
Contraception2.724
Crime and Delinquency1.750
Criminology2.467
Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science0.750
Culture, Health and Sexuality 1.553
Demographic Research1.198
Demography1.931
Developmental Biology4.069
Developmental Psychobiology2.977
Developmental Psychology3.214
Diabetes Care8.087
Drug and Alcohol Dependence3.383
Du Bois Review
Ecological Applications5.102
Ecological Modelling2.326
Econometrica2.976
Economic Development and Cultural Change0.980
Economic Journal1.945
Economics and Human Biology2.722
Economics Letters0.359
Economics of Education Review1.069
Economy and Society1.700
Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis1.378
Environment and Behavior1.275
Environment and Planning A1.888
Environment and Planning B0.826
Environmental Health Perspectives7.036
Epidemiologic Reviews7.583
Epidemiology5.566
Ethnicity and Disease0.902
Ethnicity and Health1.639
Ethnology0.067
European Journal of Ageing1.268
European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care1.456
European Journal of Population1.750
European Review of Aging and Physical Activity0.947
European Sociological Review1.935
Evolution and Human Behavior3.113
Families In Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services0.286
Family and Community Health 0.986
Family Processes1.727
Family Relations0.680
Fertility and Sterility3.564
Field Methods1.111
Gender and Society2.414
Gender Issues
Geographical Analysis1.054
Geography and Natural Resources
GeoJournal
Gerontechnology
Gerontologist2.481
Gerontology2.777
Hallym International Journal of Aging
Health Affairs4.313
Health and Place2.669
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes2.112
Health Care Analysis1.020
Health Economics2.123
Health Economics, Policy and Law1.326
Health Education and Behavior
Health Policy1.506
Health Policy and Planning2.651
Health Research Policy and Systems
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology
Health Services Research2.157
Historical Methods
History and Technology
History of Psychology0.265
History of the Family0.410
Housing Policy Debate0.480
Human Ecology1.629
Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective1.955
Human Reproduction4.475
Identity in the Information Society 1.000
Industrial and Labor Relations Review0.849
Inquiry0.826
International Economic Review1.559
International Journal for Equity in Health1.712
International Journal of Aging and Human Development0.615
International Journal of Comparative Sociology0.684
International Journal of Epidemiology6.414
International Journal of Geographical Information Science1.472
International Journal of Health Care Finance & Economics0.488
International Journal of Health Geographics2.617
International Journal of Health Services1.205
International Journal of Intercultural Relations1.142
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research2.462
International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
International Journal of Public Opinion Research1.222
International Journal of STD and AIDS1.086
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research1.339
International Migration Review1.149
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health1.060
International Regional Science Review0.725
International Review of Sociology
International Sociology0.480
International Statistical Review0.540
Isis0.779
JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 4.425
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association30.026
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion1.348
Journal of Adolescence2.050
Journal of Adolescent Health 3.334
Journal of Adult Development0.596
Journal of African American Studies
Journal of Aging and Health1.556
Journal of Aging Studies1.115
Journal of Applied Econometrics1.758
Journal of Applied Gerontology0.972
Journal of Applied Psychology4.308
Journal of Applied Social Psychology0.633
Journal of Asian Studies0.521
Journal of Bioeconomics
Journal of Biosocial Science0.980
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse0.618
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology1.923
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism5.967
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology4.271
Journal of Clinical Oncology18.372
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry5.799
Journal of Community Health1.278
Journal of Comparative Economics1.028
Journal of Comparative Family Studies0.476
Journal of Consumer Psychology
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
Journal of Democracy1.008
Journal of Developing Areas
Journal of Development Economics2.129
Journal of Development Studies0.794
Journal of Divorce and Remarriage
Journal of Drug Issues0.376
Journal of Economic History1.015
Journal of Economic Literature9.243
Journal of Economic Perspectives5.865
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics1.074
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics1.267
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health3.192
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies1.236
Journal of Experimental Criminology1.171
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology2.313
Journal of Family and Economic Issues
Journal of Family History0.500
Journal of Family Issues1.035
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (formerly Family Planning Perspectives)1.636
Journal of Family Theory and Review
Journal of General Internal Medicine 2.830
Journal of Geographical Systems1.171
Journal of Happiness Studies1.875
Journal of Health and Social Behavior2.722
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 1.102
Journal of Health Economics2.341
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law0.873
Journal of Health Psychology1.218
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment0.577
Journal of Human Resources2.371
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health1.164
Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
Journal of International Development0.878
Journal of International Migration and Integration
Journal of Interpersonal Violence1.639
Journal of Labor Economics1.644
Journal of Marriage and the Family2.028
Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health1.163
Journal of Mixed Methods Research1.912
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease1.682
Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging2.686
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene1.189
Journal of Official Statistics0.328
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology5.076
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management1.095
Journal of Political Economy2.902
Journal of Population Ageing
Journal of Population Economics0.923
Journal of Population Research
Journal of Poverty
Journal of Public Economics1.459
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice0.963
Journal of Quantitative Criminology2.120
Journal of Religion and Health1.024
Journal of Research on Adolescence1.989
Journal of Social Issues1.766
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference0.716
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs2.251
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society3.656
Journal of the American Statistical Association1.992
Journal of the European Economic Association1.357
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A: Statistics in Society2.110
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B: Statistical Methodology3.645
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C: Applied Statistics0.828
Journal of Traumatic Stress2.326
Journal of Urban Health2.130
Journal of Women's Health1.569
Journal of Youth and Adolescence2.717
Journals of Gerontology A: Biological and Medical4.598
Journals of Gerontology B: Psychological and Social Sciences2.615
Lancet38.278
Latin American Perspectives0.337
Law and Policy0.658
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences
Maternal and Child Health Journal2.243
Mathematical Biosciences1.540
Medical Anthropology Quarterly0.949
Medical Care3.411
Milbank Quarterly5.620
Nature36.280
Neuroepidemiology2.305
New Directions for Evaluation
New England Journal of Medicine53.298
Obstetrics and Gynecology4.392
Open Women's Health Journal
Osiris0.292
Osteoporosis International4.580
Papers in Regional Science1.430
Pediatrics5.437
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin2.217
Personality and Social Psychology Review6.071
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health2.075
PLoS Medicine16.269
Policing and Society0.686
Political Science Quarterly0.442
Population (INED)0.333
Population and Development Review2.224
Population and Environment1.463
Population Research and Policy Review0.765
Population Studies1.083
Population, Space and Place
Prevention Science2.634
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America9.681
Psychiatric Services2.383
Psychological Assessment2.993
Psychological Bulletin14.457
Psychological Methods4.449
Psychological Review7.756
Psychological Science4.431
Psychology and Aging2.729
Psychosomatic Medicine3.968
Public Health Reports 1.275
Public Opinion Quarterly2.247
Qualitative Sociology0.780
Quality and Quantity0.768
Quality of Life Research2.300
Quarterly Journal of Economics5.920
Race and Social Problems
Regional Environmental Change3.000
Reproductive Health Matters1.371
Research in Human Development1.633
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Research on Aging1.233
Review of Economics and Statistics2.664
Review of Economics of the Household0.643
Review of General Psychology1.776
Review of Religious Research 0.457
Review of Research in Education1.545
Rural Sociology0.694
Science31.201
Sex Roles1.471
Sexually Transmitted Diseases2.873
Sexually Transmitted Infections2.854
Signs0.458
Social Forces1.343
Social Indicators Research1.131
Social Network Analysis and Mining
Social Networks2.931
Social Policy and Administration0.566
Social Problems1.226
Social Psychology Quarterly1.892
Social Science and Medicine2.699
Social Science Computer Review1.075
Social Science History0.485
Social Science Quarterly0.987
Social Science Research1.273
Society and Natural Resources1.090
Socio-Economic Review1.780
Sociologia Ruralis 1.362
Sociological Focus
Sociological Forum0.908
Sociological Methodology3.000
Sociological Methods & Research1.524
Sociological Perspectives0.569
Sociological Spectrum0.312
Sociology 1.352
Sociology of Education1.750
Sociology of Health and Illness1.885
Sociology of Religion0.861
Statistics in Medicine1.877
Studies in Comparative International Development0.650
Studies in Family Planning1.277
Substance Abuse1.333
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy1.157
Survey Methodology0.927
Survey Research Methods
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2.592
The American Sociologist
The Annals of Regional Science1.010
The European Journal of Health Economics1.500
The Journal of Economic Inequality0.812
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 6.410
The Journal of Pediatrics4.042
The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency1.694
The Journal of Social Psychology
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 17.391
The Review of Economic Studies3.113
The Sociological Quarterly1.143
The Urban Review
Theoretical Population Biology1.800
Theory and Society1.056
Theory, Culture, & Society1.770
Tobacco Control3.077
Trauma, Violence, and Abuse2.60
Tropical Medicine and International Health2.328
Urban Affairs Review1.333
Urban Forum
Urban Studies1.513
Women and Health0.895
Women's Health
Women's Health Issues1.269
Work and Occupations0.886
Work, Employment and Society1.239
World Development1.225
Youth and Society1.058