Suggested Journals for Publishing HINTS Findings
Journal Title: Health Education and Behavior
Impact Factor: 1.818
About the Journal: Health Education & Behavior explores social and behavioral change as they affect health status and quality of life. It also examines the processes of planning, implementing, managing, and assessing health education and social-behavioral interventions. The journal provides empirical research, case studies, program evaluations, literature reviews, and discussions of theories of health behavior and health status, as well as strategies to improve social and behavioral health. Regular features include Perspectives, which offers thoughtful insights into complex subjects, and Practice Notes, which summarizes innovative programs in health education.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: those interested in disease prevention and health promotion (e.g. health educators, social and behavioral scientists, community organizers, government agencies, and health care professionals)
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, cultural differences, social support
Journal Title: Health Education Journal
Impact Factor: could not locate
About the Journal: The Health Education Journal (HEJ) publishes peer reviewed authoritative papers on health promotion and health education. Established in 1943, the Health Education Journal is published quarterly and carries original papers on health promotion and health education research, policy development and good practice.
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Primary Readership: health education researchers and practitioners
Examples of Potential Topics: cancer risk, health behaviors, health promotion
Journal Title: Health Education Research
Impact Factor: 1.623
About the Journal: Publishing original, refereed papers, Health Education Research deals with all the vital issues involved in health education and promotion worldwide – providing a valuable link between the health education research and practice communities.
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Primary Readership: health education researchers and practitioners
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, health promotion
Journal Title: Health Expectations
Impact Factor: 1.949
About the Journal: Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy. Health Expectations is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices. The Journal provides a multi-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers from a variety of backgrounds can present their work.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: researchers, policy makers, health care professionals, managers and consumer advocates
Examples of Potential Topics: psychosocial topics
Journal Title: Health Promotion International
Impact Factor: 1.539
About the Journal: The quarterly journal is is an Official Journal of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, and is published in association with the World Health Organization. It contains refereed original articles, reviews and debate articles on major themes and innovations from various sectors including education, health services, employment, government, the media, industry, environmental agencies and community networks. The journal provides a unique focal point for articles of high quality that describe not only theories and concepts, research projects and policy formulation, but also planned and spontaneous activities, organizational change, social and environmental development.
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Primary Readership: health promotion scholars, policy makers, practitioners
Examples of Potential Topics: health promotion, cultural differences, health policy
Journal Title: Health Psychology
Impact Factor: could not locate
About the Journal: Health Psychology is a scholarly journal devoted to furthering an understanding of scientific relationships between behavioral principles on the one hand and physical health and illness on the other. The readership has a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and specializations, often interdisciplinary in nature. The major type of paper being solicited for Health Psychology is the report of empirical research. Such papers should have significant theoretical or practical import for an understanding of relationships between behavior and physical health. Integrative papers that address themselves to a broad constituency are particularly welcome.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: psychologists, behavioral scientists
Examples of Potential Topics: health beliefs, attitudes, sociocultural factors influencing health, psychosocial issues
Journal Title: Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
Impact Factor: 0.868
About the Journal: Scholarly articles on a wide variety of Hispanic concerns, including cultural assimilation, communication barriers, intergroup relations, employment discrimination, substance abuse, AIDS prevention, family dynamics, and minority poverty.
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Primary Readership: social and behavioral scientists, practitioners
Examples of Potential Topics: cultural differences, health beliefs
Journal Title: Human Communication Research
Impact Factor: 1.080
About the Journal: Concentrates on presenting the best empirical work in the area of human communication. It is a top-ranked communication studies journal and one of the top ten journals in the field of human communication. Major topic areas for the journal include language and social interaction, nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication and new technologies, mass communication, health communication, intercultural communication, and developmental issues in communication.
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Primary Readership: scholars in health communication (communication as whole), behavioral scientists
Examples of Potential Topics: health communication
Journal Title: International Electronic Journal of Health Education
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About the Journal: The First Web-Based Peer-Reviewed Journal in Health Education, Promotion, and Behavior. The IEJHE went on-line officially on December 31, 1997 with a complete text of articles ranging from research to theory-based manuscripts. Whereas many health-related journals have web pages, the IEJHE is the first to have complete text, in a peer-reviewed component that is available on the Internet. At the present time IEJHE is an open access professional journal. Besides having access to the present issue, readers also have access to all previous issues.
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Primary Readership: researchers and practitioners in health education, international focus
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, nutrition, cancer knowledge
Journal Title: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Impact Factor: could not locate
About the Journal: The International Journal of Behavioral Medicine is the official publication of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine. It publishes original research and integrative reviews on interactions among behavioral, psychosocial, environmental, genetic and biomedical factors relevant to health and illness. The scope of the IJBM extends from research on biobehavioral mechanisms; clinical studies on diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation; to research on public health, including health promotion and prevention. As an international journal, the IJBM publishes research originating from all continents. In addition, the IJBM invites research on multi-national, multi-cultural and global aspects of health and illness.
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Primary Readership: scientists, researchers and practitioners in public health, including health promotion and prevention, international focus
Examples of Potential Topics: prevention, risk, health behaviors
Journal Title: Int J Inf Secur and Privacy
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About the Journal: Seeks to publish high quality papers dealing with a wide range of issues, ranging from technical, legal, regulatory, organizational, managerial, cultural, ethical and human aspects of information security and privacy.
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Primary Readership: researchers
Examples of Potential Topics: media trust
Journal Title: Journal of Aging and Health
Impact Factor: 1.342
About the Journal: The Journal of Aging and Health is an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of research findings and scholarly exchange in the area of aging and health. Manuscripts are sought that deal with social and behavioral factors related to health and aging. Disciplines represented include the behavioral and social sciences, public health, epidemiology, demography, health services research, nursing, social work, medicine, and related disciplines. Although preference is given to manuscripts presenting the findings of original research, review and methodological pieces will also be considered.
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Primary Readership: behavioral and social sciences, public health, epidemiology, demography, health services research, nursing, social work, medicine, and related disciplines
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors and beliefs, prevention, social support, as it relates to agin
Journal Title: Journal of the American Geriatric Society
Impact Factor: 3.539
About the Journal: The primary goal of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is to publish articles that are relevant in the broadest terms to the clinical care of older persons. Such articles may span a variety of disciplines and fields and may be of immediate, intermediate, or long-term potential benefit to clinical practice.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: multidisciplinary audience working in gerentology, researchers and clinicians
Examples of Potential Topics: issues related to older adults
Journal Title: Journal of American Academy of Dermatology
Impact Factor: could not locate
About the Journal: As the official publication of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Journal is dedicated to the clinical and continuing education needs of the entire dermatologic community and is internationally known as the leading journal in the field. Original, peer-reviewed articles cover clinical and investigative studies, treatments, new diagnostic techniques, and other topics relating to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of the skin. Included are CME articles based on the Core Curriculum of the American Academy of Dermatology.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: clinicians
Examples of Potential Topics: sun exposure, skin cancer
Journal Title: Journal of Cancer Education
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About the Journal: The Journal of Cancer Education, the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (AACE) and the European Association for Cancer Education (EACE), is an international, quarterly journal dedicated to the publication of original contributions dealing with the varied aspects of cancer education. Articles featured include reports of original results of educational research, as well as discussions of current problems and techniques in cancer education. Manuscripts are welcome on such subjects as educational methods, instruments, and program evaluation. Suitable topics include teaching of basic science aspects of cancer, the assessment of attitudes toward cancer patient management, the teaching of diagnostic skills relevant to cancer, and the evaluation of undergraduate, postgraduate, or continuing education programs.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 2
Primary Readership: physicians, dentists, nurses, students, social workers, and other allied health professionals, patients, and the general public
Examples of Potential Topics: cancer knowledge, information-seeking
Journal Title: Journal of Cancer Survivorship
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About the Journal: The purpose of this multidisciplinary journal is to enhance knowledge about cancer survivorship. The journal will publish peer reviewed papers relevant to improving the understanding, prevention, and management of the multiple areas related to cancer survivorship that can affect quality of care, longevity and quality of life. It will be a forum for basic research in humans (laboratory and clinical), clinical studies, literature reviews, policy and case studies. Special issues will focus on major topics including: cognitive limitations, health behaviors, health services, distress, fatigue, international approaches, and work-related issues.
HINTS pubs (1/09):1
Primary Readership: public health professionals, clinicians
Examples of Potential Topics: survivorship
