The ''Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health'' is a bimonthly

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covering research on immigrant health and the health of

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s. It was established in 1999 as the ''Journal of Immigrant Health'', obtaining its current name in 2006. It is published by

Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 ...

and the

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is Sana Loue (

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Case Western Reserve School of Medicine (CWRU SOM, CaseMed) is the medical school of Case Western Reserve University, a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It is the largest biomedical research center in Ohio. History On November ...

). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 1.314.

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