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Social Science and Medicine

Social Science and Medicine is a journal indexed in SJR in Medicine (miscellaneous) and Health (social science) with an H index of 296. It has a price of 2385 €. It has a COP Index of 5,9 (best band D1). It is published in English. It has a COP Index of 5,9.

Social Science and Medicine focuses its scope in these topics and keywords: health, social, care, study, mental, stress, developing, treatment, case, understanding, ...

ISSN: 0277-9536

Publisher: Elsevier Ltd

Category: Medicine (miscellaneous)

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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5,9 D1 Top 10%

6 of 282 journals in Health (social science)

H-index · SJR 296 · 2,103

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18% Selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

2.385 € Subscription

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COP Index

5,9

D1 Top 10%

SJR Impact

2,103

H-index

296

Docs (year)

855

Docs 3y

2209

Total refs

52424

Cites 3y

13105

Citable 3y

2167

Cites/Doc 2y

5.58

Ref/Doc

61.31

Immediate OA

2385 €

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0 €

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Best articles by citations

Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology

Women, Families & HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America

Do preventive health services reduce eventual demand for medical care?

Diffusion of ideas about personal hygiene and contamination in poor countries: evidence from Guatemala

Determinants of general practitioner use among women in Australia

Dental anxiety in Danish and Chinese adults - A cross-cultural perspective

Dava, Daktar, and Dua: Anthropology of practiced medicine in India

Cross cultural communication of tetanus vaccinations in Bolivia

Cost-effectiveness of the female condom in preventing HIV and STDs in commercial sex workers in rural South Africa

Circumstances of post-neonatal deaths in Ceara, Northeast Brazil: mothers' health care-seeking behaviors during their infants' fatal illness

Child sexual abuse in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

Cataract surgery in a community hospital outreach clinic: patients' costs and satisfaction

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Attitudes to traditional Chinese medicine amongst Western trained doctors in the People's Republic of China

Anthropological approaches to the study of ethnomedicine

An investigation into the cyclical incidence of dengue fever

An economic analysis of the resettlement of people with mild learning disabilities and challenging behaviour

American children: Risks and realities

AIDS: Crisis in professional ethics

AIDS, violence and behavioral coding: Information theory, risk behavior and dynamic process on core-group sociogeographic networks

AIDS in Namibia

Adolescent smoking and family structure in Europe

A challenge to the cross-cultural validity of the SF-36 health survey: factor structure in Maori, Pacific and New Zealand European ethnic groups

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Social Science and Medicine has a COP Index of 5,9 (D1), ranked 6 of 282 in Health (social science). SJR: 2,103.

Immediate OA APC is 2385 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Social Science and Medicine is 18%.

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