Suggested Journals for Publishing HINTS Findings
Journal Title: Journal of Communication
Impact Factor: 1.134
About the Journal: Flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communications specialists and policy makers. The Journal of Communication concentrates on communication research, practice, policy, and theory, bringing to its readers the latest, broadest, and most important findings in the field of communication studies. Expect decisions made w/in 120 days.
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Primary Readership: communication scholars
Examples of Potential Topics: health communication
Journal Title: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Impact Factor: 2.805
About the Journal: The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is a truly international journal that encompasses all aspects of epidemiology and public health. It publishes original research, opinions and materials concerned with the study and improvement of communities worldwide. Time from submission to first decision: mean 4 weeks.
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Primary Readership: Epidemiologists, public health consultants, primary care and environmental health consultants, health officials, clinicians
Examples of Potential Topics: epidemiology
Journal Title: Journal of General Internal Medicine
Impact Factor: 3.013
About the Journal: The Journal of General Internal Medicine is the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine. It promotes improved patient care, research, and education in primary care, general internal medicine, and hospital medicine. Its articles focus on topics such as clinical medicine, epidemiology, prevention, health care delivery, curriculum development, and numerous other non-traditional themes, in addition to classic clinical research on problems in internal medicine.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: clinicians and clinically-oriented researchers
Examples of Potential Topics: variety of topics related to improving patient care
Journal Title: Journal of Health Communication
Impact Factor: 0.802
About the Journal: Journal of Health Communication is a scholarly, peer-reviewed quarterly that presents the latest developments in the field of health communication, including research in social marketing, shared decision making, communication (from interpersonal to mass media), psychology, government, and health education in the United States and the world. The journal seeks to advance a synergistic relationship between research and practical information to help readers build a New Health Order. With a focus on promoting the vital life of the individual as well as the good health of the world's communities, the journal presents research, progress in areas of technology and public health, ethics, politics/policy, and the application of health communication principles.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 24
Primary Readership: scholars involved in health communication, medicine, public health, health sciences, psychology and social work, marketing/ business of health, allied health funds, teaching hospitals, political science, sociology, and public relations
Examples of Potential Topics: health communication
Journal Title: Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
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About the Journal: The Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice is an on-line journal published quarterly that explores the problems and challenges of health disparities among the diverse populations of the United States and the World. The journal invites submissions of original papers from researchers, public health practitioners, and students researching and working on health disparities solutions.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: public health practitioners, academics
Examples of Potential Topics: health disparities
Journal Title: Journal of Health Psychology
Impact Factor: 1.228
About the Journal: Journal of Health Psychology is an international forum for the best research in health psychology from around the world. It provides a platform for traditional empirical analyses as well as more qualitative and/or critically oriented approaches. It also addresses the social contexts in which psychological and health processes are embedded.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 2
Primary Readership: psychologists
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, cultural differences, psychosocial influences on health
Journal Title: Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Impact Factor: could not locate
About the Journal: Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JHSB) publishes articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health, illness, and medicine in their social context. Its editorial policy favors those manuscripts that build and test knowledge in medical sociology, that show stimulating scholarship and clarity of expression, and which, taken together, reflect the breadth of interests of its readership. Published quarterly by the American Sociological Association.
HINTS pubs (1/09):
Primary Readership: behavioral scientists, medical sociologists
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, health communication, cultural differences
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Impact Factor: 3
About the Journal: The Journal of Medical Internet Research, founded in 1999, is a leading health informatics journal. JMIR was the first open access journal covering health informatics, and the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Intranet-related technologies; a broad field, which is nowadays called "eHealth" [see also What is eHealth and What is eHealth (2)]. This field has also significant overlaps with what is called "consumer health informatics." This focus makes JMIR unique among other medical or medical informatics journals, which tend to focus on clinical informatics or clinical applications. As eHealth is a highly interdisciplinary field we are not only inviting research papers from the medical sciences, but also from the computer, behavioral, social and communication sciences, psychology, library sciences, informatics, human-computer interaction studies, and related fields.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: multidisciplinary, those interested in eHealth
Examples of Potential Topics: health informatics, health communication over itnernet
Journal Title: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Impact Factor: 15.171
About the Journal: Internationally acclaimed; ranked as the most cited original research cancer journal; published twice monthly; publishes manuscripts that describe new findings of particular significance in any area relating to cancer; fairly quick review process (approx 8 weeks)
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Primary Readership: scientists, clinicians, wide readership
Examples of Potential Topics: prevention, cancer communication, cancer screening
Journal Title: Journal of Women's Health
Impact Factor: could not locate
About the Journal: Journal of Women's Health is the primary source of information to meet the challenges of providing optimum healthcare for women. This authoritative peer-reviewed journal publishes the latest clinical and research papers on the medical health issues that affect women throughout their lifespan. The Journal is the core resource for cutting-edge advancements and clinical applications on new diagnostic procedures, therapeutic protocols for the management of diseases in women, and innovative research in gender-based biology that impacts diagnosis and therapy.
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Primary Readership: clinicians and scientists in fields related to women's health
Examples of Potential Topics: cancer screening in women
Journal Title: Nicotine Tob Res
Impact Factor: 2.129
About the Journal: Nicotine & Tobacco Research is one of the world's few peer-reviewed journals devoted exclusively to the study of nicotine and tobacco. It aims to provide a forum for empirical findings, critical reviews, and conceptual papers on the many aspects of nicotine tobacco, including research from the biobehavioral, neurobiological, molecular biologic, epidemiological, prevention, and treatment arenas.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 2
Primary Readership: health behavior researchers
Examples of Potential Topics: tobacco
Journal Title: Nutrition and Cancer
Impact Factor: could not locate
About the Journal: This timely publication reports and reviews current findings on the effects of nutrition on the etiology, therapy, and prevention of cancer. Etiological issues include clinical and experimental research in nutrition, carcinogenesis, epidemiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Coverage of therapy focuses on research in clinical nutrition and oncology, dietetics, and bioengineering. Prevention approaches include public health recommendations, preventative medicine, behavior modification, education, functional foods, and agricultural and food production policies.
HINTS pubs (1/09):
Primary Readership: lab scientists, epidemiologists, public health researchers
Examples of Potential Topics: nutrition (mostly clinical, some behavioral)
Journal Title: Patient Education and Counseling
Impact Factor: 1.178
About the Journal: Patient Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for patient education and health promotion researchers, managers, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. The journal seeks to explore and elucidate educational, counseling and communication models in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum for fundamental as well as applied research, and to promote the study of the delivery of patient education, counseling, and health promotion services, including training models and organizational issues in improving communication between providers and patients. Authors can expect to receive a decision in approximately 8-12 weeks.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 3
Primary Readership: patient education and health promotion researchers, managers, physicians, nurses and other health care providers
Examples of Potential Topics: health promotion, cancer knowledge, health communication
Journal Title: Preventing Chronic Disease
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About the Journal: Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal established to provide a forum for public health researchers and practitioners to share study results and practical experience. The journal is published by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The mission of the journal is to address the interface between applied prevention research and public health practice in chronic disease prevention. PCD focuses on preventing diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, which are among the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 2
Primary Readership: applied resaerchers, public health practitioners
Examples of Potential Topics: health promotion, cancer prevention
Journal Title: Preventive Medicine
Impact Factor: 2.39
About the Journal: Recognized for its authoritative contributions to the entire field of preventive medicine and public health, Preventive Medicine: An International Journal Devoted to Practice and Theory is a respected source of information on applied research into all aspects of prevention.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: preventive medicine, primary care, epidemiology, and public health
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, cancer screening, risk, health education
Journal Title: Psycho-Oncology
Impact Factor: 2.772
About the Journal: Psycho-Oncology is the Official Journal of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS), the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) and the British Psycho-Oncology Society (BPOS). Psycho-Oncology is concerned with the psychological, social, behavioral, and ethical aspects of cancer. This subspeciality addresses the two major psychological dimensions of cancer: the psychological responses of patients to cancer at all stages of the disease, and that of their families and caretakers; and the psychological, behavioral and social factors that may influence the disease process. Psycho-oncology is an area of multi-disciplinary interest and has boundaries with the major specialities in oncology: the clinical disciplines (surgery, medicine, pediatrics, radiotherapy), epidemiology, immunology, endocrinology, biology, pathology, bioethics, palliative care, rehabilitation medicine, clinical trials research and decision making, as well as psychiatry and psychology.
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Primary Readership: oncologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral scientists, clinicians in surgery, medicine, pediatrics, and radiotherapy
Examples of Potential Topics: survivorship, psychosocial factors in cancer
Journal Title: Public Opinion Quarterly
Impact Factor: 2.03
About the Journal: Published since 1937, Public Opinion Quarterly is among the most frequently cited journals of its kind. Such interdisciplinary leadership benefits academicians and all social science researchers by providing a trusted source for a wide range of high quality research. POQ selectively publishes important theoretical contributions to opinion and communication research, analyses of current public opinion, and investigations of methodological issues involved in survey validity—including questionnaire construction, interviewing and interviewers, sampling strategy, and mode of administration. The theoretical and methodological advances detailed in pages of POQ ensure its importance as a research resource.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: communication and social science reseachers
Examples of Potential Topics: HINTS methodology
Journal Title: Social Science and Medicine
Impact Factor: 2.749
About the Journal: Social Science & Medicine provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of research findings, reviews and theory in all areas of common interest to social scientists, health practitioners and policy makers. The journal publishes material relevant to any aspect of health from a wide range of social science disciplines (eg. anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, social epidemiology, social policy and sociology), and material relevant to the social sciences from any of the professions concerned with physical and mental health, and with health care practice, policy and organization. It is particularly keen to publish findings or reviews which are of general interest to an international readership. Papers are published online within 6-8 weeks of being accepted.
HINTS pubs (1/09):
Primary Readership: social scientists interested in health, illness, and health care; and health or health care professionals and policy makers interested in the contribution of the social sciences
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, psychosocial factors
Journal Title: Surgical Endoscopy
Impact Factor: 2.242
About the Journal: Surgical Endoscopy represents the surgical aspects of interventional endoscopy, ultrasound, and other techniques in the fields of gastroenterology, obstetrics, gynecology, and urology, as well as in gastroenterologic, thoracic, traumatic, orthopedic, and pediatric surgery. It offers a worldwide forum for discussion of aspects of interventional endoscopy and ultrasound as integral elements of surgical practice. It also affords the international surgical community a focal point for the exchange of information on practice, theory, and research in various medical and surgical disciplines.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: surgical community
Examples of Potential Topics: endoscopy, ultrasound
Journal Title: Tobacco Control
Impact Factor: 2.797
About the Journal: An international peer review journal for health professionals and others in tobacco control. Research Areas include: Evaluation of smoking prevention and cessation policies and programmes; Tracking and evaluation of tobacco control policies and legislation; Epidemiologic and behavioural research on tobacco use; Efforts by the tobacco industry to promote tobacco use and undermine control efforts.
HINTS pubs (1/09): 1
Primary Readership: researchers and clinicians
Examples of Potential Topics: tobacco control
