Patient Education and Counseling
Last updated ISSN 0738-3991
Patient Education and Counseling is published by Elsevier BV in health professions. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,830.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Patient Education and Counseling concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0738-3991, 1873-5134 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,830 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 10,972 |
| Publishing since | 1967 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/patient-education-and-coun |
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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