Preventive Medicine (journal)


Preventive Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier since 1972. It covers all aspects of preventive medicine and public health. The editor-in-chief is Eduardo L. Franco. The founding editor was Ernst Wynder.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EMBASE, Scopus, Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, BIOSIS Previews, and Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. Its 2014 impact factor was 3.086, ranking it 25th among 153 journals in the category "General and Internal Medicine" and 31st among 162 journals in the category "Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health".