''Women's Health Issues'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering women's health care and policy. It is the official journal of the
Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
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and published on their behalf by
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. The
editor-in-chief
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is Chloe E. Bird (
RAND Corporation
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).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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'', the journal has a 2015
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 1.811, ranking it 4th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies".
See also
*
List of medical journals
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*
List of women's studies journals
This is a list of peer-reviewed, academic journals in the field of women's studies.
''Note'': there are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here.
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*''Affilia''
* ''Asian Journal ...
References
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Bimonthly journals
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
George Washington University
Academic journals established in 1990
Women's health
Healthcare journals
Academic journals associated with universities and colleges of the United States
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