Overview
Prevention Science is an interdisciplinary forum for new developments in the theory, research and practice of prevention.
- The official journal of the Society for Prevention Research.
- Covers etiology, epidemiology and intervention.
- Addresses a variety of health and social problems, including but not limited to substance abuse, mental health, teen pregnancy, suicide, violence, HIV/AIDS, and chronic illness.
- Publishes original research, literature reviews, theoretical articles, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews.
- Welcomes literature reviews, theoretical articles, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, brief reports, replication studies, and papers concerning new developments in methodology
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Catherine P. Bradshaw
- Journal Impact Factor
- 3.0 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 3.6 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 30 days
- Downloads
- 669,509 (2023)
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Supporting the Sustainable Developmental Goals
We are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2023 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-6695
- Print ISSN
- 1389-4986
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- BFI List
- Baidu
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMCare
- ERIC
- ERIH PLUS
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- PsycINFO
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Semantic Scholar
- Social Science Citation Index
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
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