Journal of Health Psychology
Encyclopedia
The Journal of Health Psychology, first published in 1996, is a peer-reviewed
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 psychology journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

. The managing editor
Editor in chief
An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...

 is David Marks
David Marks (psychologist)
David F. Marks is a psychologist who is largely concerned with four areas of psychological research - health psychology, cognitive psychology, parapsychology and IQ score variations...

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Scope

The focus of the journal is research in health psychology
Health psychology
Health psychology is concerned with understanding how biological, psychological, environmental, and cultural factors are involved in physical health and illness. Health psychologists work alongside other medical professionals in clinical settings, work on behavior change in public health promotion,...

 from the perspective of empirical
Empiricism
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, qualitative, and critical analysis and studies. Social contexts in which the psychology and health studies occur are also taken into account. Topical coverage includes clinical health psychology, community health psychology, critical health psychology, medical psychology
Medical psychology
Medical psychology is a very broad field and has been defined in various ways. The Academy of Medical Psychology's definition applies to both the practices of consultation and prescribing in Medical Psychology, when allowed by statutes...

, and clinical psychology
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development...

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Publishing formats include reports of empirical studies, critical reviews of the literature, book reviews, contributions related to theory, commentaries related to theory, and editorials on what are deemed to be significant issues. Besides a suggested maximum of 6000 words for articles, brief reports are usually limited to 3000 words.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is indexed in the following databases:
  • Thomson Reuters
    Social Sciences Citation Index
    Social Sciences Citation Index
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    Current Contents
    Current Contents
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    /Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Academic Search Elite
    EBSCO Publishing
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  • ClinPSYC
  • EMBASE
    EMBASE
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    /Excerpta Medica
  • Index Medicus
    Index medicus
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     & MEDLINE
    MEDLINE
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  • PsycINFO
    PsycINFO
    PsycINFO is a database of abstracts of literature in the field of psychology. It is produced by the American Psychological Association and distributed on the association's and through third-party vendors. It is the electronic version of the now-ceased Psychological Abstracts...


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