Behavioral Medicine
Last updated ISSN 0896-4289
Behavioral Medicine is published by Taylor & Francis in psychology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Behavioral Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Sleep and related disorders
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0896-4289, 1940-4026 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,010 |
| Publishing since | 1982 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/vbmd20/current |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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