Journal of Health Communication
Last updated ISSN 1081-0730
Journal of Health Communication is published by Taylor & Francis in health professions. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Health Communication concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Media Influence and Health
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Social Media in Health Education
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1081-0730, 1087-0415 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,784 |
| Publishing since | 1992 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhcm20/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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