Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

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Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

description Peer-reviewed journal
Area of ​​Expertise Medicine and Infectious Diseases
language English
publishing company Cambridge University Press ( United States of America )
First edition 1980
Frequency of publication twelve issues a year
Web link Website of the journal
ISSN (print)

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology , abbreviated to Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. , is a scientific journal published by Cambridge University Publishing on behalf of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America . The journal was founded in 1980 under the name Infection Control , expanded to Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology in 1988 and currently appears with twelve issues a year. Papers are published that deal with the prevention of infectious diseases in hospitals.

The impact factor in 2014 was 4.175. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks 16th out of 78 journals in the Infectious Diseases category and 16th out of 162 journals in the Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Medicine category.

Individual evidence

  1. Website of the journal ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on September 11, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shea-online.org
  2. 2014 Journal Citation Reports, Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).