Journal of Health Economics
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| description | Scientific journal |
| Area of Expertise | Health economics |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Elsevier |
| First edition | 1982 |
| Frequency of publication | every two months |
| Editor-in-chief | John Cawley , Martin Chalkley , Michael E. Chernew , David M. Cutler , Ellen R. Meara , Nigel Rice , Luigi Siciliani , Andrew D. Street |
| Web link | journals.elsevier.com |
| Article archive | sciencedirect.com |
| ISSN (print) | 0167-6296 |
The Journal of Health Economics is an economic journal with a focus on health economics . The Journal of Health Economics is published by the Dutch publisher Elsevier with a frequency of six issues per year and is considered to be one of the leading journals in the field of health economics.
history
The Journal of Health Economics was first published in 1982 by North-Holland Publishing with Joseph P. Newhouse ( Harvard Medical School ) as editor and Anthony J. Culyer ( University of York ) in order to meet the growing demand for a professional journal that carried out research on economic applications Publishing methods and approaches to health policy issues would meet. While the publication frequency of the Journal of Health Economics was only three issues per year at the beginning, the number of issues grew to four in 1984, to five in 1995 and finally to six in 1996.
Content
The Journal of Health Economics is looking for articles that deal with the economics of health and medicine. The scope of the journal includes the following topics:
- the production of health and health care;
- the demand and use of health care;
- health care funding;
- the measurement of health;
- behavioral models of consumers, providers and other agents in the health care system;
- Health behavior and political measures in health care;
- Efficiency and fair distribution of health policy.
Other topics will also be accepted if the editors agree. In particular, applications of modern health economics to the problems in both developed and less developed countries are welcomed.
editorial staff
The editorial staff of the Journal of Health Economics consists of John Cawley , Martin Chalkley , Michael E. Chernew , David M. Cutler , Ellen R. Meara , Nigel Rice , Luigi Siciliani and Andrew D. Street as well as 18 associate editors .
reception
In a study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) ranked 71st out of 159 evaluated publications in the Journal of Health Economics , but could not be found in an updated study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) to 31st place out of 209 publications compared. In the economics publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam , the Journal of Health Economics is listed in category A ("very good general economic journals and top journals in the respective subject"). Another study by the French economists Pierre-Phillippe Combes and Laurent Linnemer lists the journal in the third best category A, ranking 23rd out of 600 economic journals.
The magazine has an impact factor of 1,600 (as of 2012). In the statistics of the Social Sciences Citation Index , the journal is listed 72nd out of 333 journals in the economics category. In the Health Policy & Health Service category , the magazine was ranked 31st out of 67 journals.
See also
Web links
- Internet presence of the Journal of Health Economics on the Elsevier website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Journal of Health Economics Editorial Board. journals.elsevier.com, accessed September 25, 2015 .
- ^ Anthony J. Culyer, Joseph P. Newhouse: Letter from the editors . In: Journal of Health Economics, Volume 10, 1991, No. 4, p. 383.
- ↑ Objectives and scope of the Journal of Health Economics (English)
- ↑ Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Thanasis Stengos: Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics . (PDF; 177 kB) In: Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 1, 2003, No. 6, pp. 1346-1366
- ↑ Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Thanasis Stengos: An updated ranking of academic journals in economics . (PDF; 337 kB) In: Canadian Journal of Economics , Vol. 44, 2011, No. 4, pp. 1525–1538.
- ↑ Magazine ranking of the Tinbergen Institute (English) ( Memento from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Combes, Pierre-Philippe and Laurent Linnemer, Inferring Missing Citations: A Quantitative Multi-Criteria Ranking of all Journals in Economics . In: GREQAM Document de Travail . No. 2010-28 , 2010, pp. 26–30 (English, halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF]).
- ^ ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports, Social Sciences Edition, 2013.