American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Aims and Scope Abstracting/Indexing Contact Information Journal Ranking/Impact Factor Policy Statement
Aims and Scope
The American Journal of Preventive Medicine is the official journal of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. It publishes articles in the areas of prevention research, teaching, practice and policy. Original research is published on interventions aimed at the prevention of chronic and acute disease and the promotion of individual and community health. Of particular emphasis are papers that address the primary and secondary prevention of important clinical, behavioral and public health issues such as injury and violence, infectious disease, women's health, smoking, sedentary behaviors and physical activity, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, and alcohol and drug abuse. Papers also address educational initiatives aimed at improving the ability of health professionals to provide effective clinical prevention and public health services. Papers on health services research pertinent to prevention and public health are also published. The journal also publishes official policy statements from the two co-sponsoring organizations, review articles, media reviews, and editorials. Finally, the journal periodically publishes supplements and special theme issues devoted to areas of current interest to the prevention community. For information on the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR), visit their web sites at the following URLs: http://www.acpm.org/ and http://www.aptrweb.org.
Abstracting/Indexing
•APNScan •BIOSIS •Chemical Abstracts •Chicano Index •Current Contents •Dev Med Child Neurol •EMBASE •Health Plan Adminis •Health Promotion and Education and the Cancer Prevention and Control Databases of CHID on BRS •International Nursing Index •Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts •MEDLINE® •Nutrition Research Newsletter •PsycINFO Psychological Abstracts •Research Alert •SCISEARCH •Scopus •Smoking and Health •Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts •Sociological Abstracts •Tropical Diseases Bulletin
Contact Information
Editor-in-Chief Kevin Patrick, MD, MS University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, DEPT 0811 La Jolla CA 92093-0811 USA Fed Ex delivery: 8950 Villa La Jolla Drive - Suite B122 Tel: 858-534-9340 Fax: 858-622-1463 Email: ajpm@ucsd.edu. Publisher Sarah Kane Elsevier Inc. 1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 1800 Philadelphia, PA 19103-2899 Tel.: +1 215-239-3798 or +1 800-523-4069 ext 3798 Fax: +1 215-239-3734 E-mail: s.kane@elsevier.com Questions About Using or Accessing this Website North America and Rest of World Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 6:00pm, ET Tel: (800) 654-2452 (Toll Free US & Canada) Tel: (314) 447-8871 (Outside US & Canada) E-mail: JournalsOnlineSupport-usa@elsevier.com Europe Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm, GMT Tel: +44 1865-843177 E-mail: eurosupport@elsevier.com This website is owned and operated by: Elsevier Inc. 1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 1800 Philadelphia, PA 19103-2899 USA Questions About Your Print Subscription Americas Journals Customer Service Tel: (800) 654-2452 (Toll Free US & Canada) Tel: (314) 447-8871 (Outside US & Canada) E-mail: JournalsCustomerService-usa@elsevier.com Europe, Africa, Middle East Tel: +44 (0) 1865 843434 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 843970 E-mail: JournalsCustomerServiceEMEA@elsevier.com Asia and Australia Customer Service Department Winsland House I 3 Killiney Road #08-01 Singapore 239519 Tel: +65 6349-0222 Fax: +65 6733-1510 E-mail: JournalsCustomerServiceAPAC@elsevier.com For Japan Customer Service Department 4F Higashi Azabu, 1 Chome Bldg 1-9-15 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-0044, Japan Tel: +81 3 5561 5037 Fax: +81 3 5561 5047 E-mail: JournalsCustomerServiceJapan@elsevier.com Web Advertising Luis Portero Elsevier 360 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10010-1710 USA Tel: +1 212-633-3970 Fax: +1 212-633-3820 E-mail: l.portero@elsevier.com Commercial Reprints Anne Rosenthal Elsevier Inc. 360 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10010-1710 Tel: +1 212-633-3812 Fax: +1 212-633-3820 E-mail: reprints@elsevier.com
Journal Ranking/Impact Factor
Impact Factor: 4.110 © 2010 Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters Ranking 18 out of 151 Medicine, General and Internal category Ranking 10 out of 140 Public, Environmental and Occupational Health category AJPM's 5-Year impact factor is 4.987 and it ranks 15th in Medicine, General and Internal and 8th in Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health.
Policy Statement
The editors and staff of AJPM adhere to the ethical standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE; www.publicationethics.org) and are committed to providing the authors with a transparent process in the handling of the manuscripts received in the editorial office. Any breach of scientific integrity will be adjudicated by COPE. In addition, AJPM follows the guidance on editorial independence produced by the World Association of Medical Editors (www.wame.org); subscribes to the tenets of reporting guidelines established by the EQUATOR network (www.equator-network.org); and supports the policies of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, available at www.icmje.org.

About AJPM