The ''European Journal of Epidemiology'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering the
epidemiology of
communicable and
non-communicable diseases and their control. It is published by
Springer Science+Business Media and the
editor-in-chief is
Albert Hofman (
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health). The journal was established in 1985 with
Antiono Sanna as founding editor.
Editors-in-chief
Sanna served as editor for 6 years, until 1992. He was succeeded by
Carlo Chezzi (1992–1994), after which
Claude Hannoun took over (1994–2002). Hannoun changed the direction of the journal, expanding the scope to include population health and non-communicable diseases.
Finally, Albert Hofman became editor in 2002.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2018
impact factor of 6.529.
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://www.springer.com/10654
Epidemiology journals
Academic journals established in 1985
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals