Overview
Discover Social Science and Health is an open access journal publishing research across the full range of disciplines at the intersection of health, social and biomedical sciences.
- Indexed in SCOPUS.
- Integrates a social perspective and a concern for health.
- A Discover journal focused on speed of submission and review, service, and integrity.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Michael J. Shanahan
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 18 days
- Downloads
- 68,749 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Introducing In Review
In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Social Science and Health. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:
- Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review
- Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level
- Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 2731-0469
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- Baidu
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- DOAJ
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- Google Scholar
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- Psyndex
- SCOPUS
- TD Net Discovery Service
- Wanfang
- Copyright information