About this journal

Aims and scope

Clinical Epidemiology is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal. Clinical Epidemiology is primarily focused on research on clinical questions, and on the application of epidemiological principles and questions relating to patients and clinical care in terms of prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.

Specific topics covered in the journal include:

  • Use of electronic medical patient records
  • Routine health care data, especially as applied to the safety of medical interventions
  • Clinical utility of diagnostic procedures and screening
  • Understanding short- and long-term clinical course of diseases
  • Prognostic and predictive markers
  • Clinical epidemiological and biostatistical methods
  • Systematic reviews
  • Secondary and tertiary prevention

Clinical Epidemiology welcomes papers covering these topics in the form of original research, reviews, and descriptions of international databases.

When considering submission of a paper utilizing publicly available data, authors should ensure that such studies add significantly to the body of knowledge and that they use appropriate validated methods for exposures and health outcomes.

All meta-analyses require a pre-submission check prior to submitting to Clinical Epidemiology. Please complete the pre-submission check form here.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 184K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 3.4 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 4.3 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 6.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.491 (2023) SNIP
  • 1.695 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief:

Professor Henrik Toft Sørensen, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University, Denmark

Associate Editors-in-Chief:

Dr Thomas Ahern, Departments of Surgery and Biochemistry, The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

Professor Vera Ehrenstein, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark

Dr Laura Horsfall, The UCL Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Dr Horváth-Puhó, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Professor Lars Pedersen, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Professor Irene Petersen, Research Department of Primary Care & Population Health, University College London, United Kingdom

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Olof Akre, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Dr Tone Bjørge, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Norway

Professor Nikolay Briko, Epidemiology and Evidence Based Medicine, Sechenov First Medical Moscow State University, Russia

Dr M. Alan Brookhart, Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University, United States

Dr Hilary K Brown, Health and Society, University of Toronto, Canada

Professor Pierre Duhaut, Internal Medecine Department, RECIF (Réseau d'Epidémiologie Clinique International Francophone), Jules Verne University of Picardy, France

Dr Reham M. El-Tarabili, Department of Bacteriology, Immunology and Mycology, Faculty of Veterinary, Suez Canal University, Egypt

Professor John K Field, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Program,, University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre, United Kingdom

Professor Allan Hackshaw, Cancer Research & UCL Cancer Trials Centre, University College London, United Kingdom

Dr Susan S Jick, Epidemiology, Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program; Boston University School of Public Health, United States

Dr Helle Kieler, Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Professor Sinéad Langan, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Professor Jonas F Ludvigsson, Professor of clinical epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Pediatrician, Örebro University Hospital, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Columbia University, NY, USA, Scientific Secretary, Swedish Society of Medicine.

Professor Roberta Ness, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States

Prof. Dr. Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Dr Nigam Shah, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, and Chief Data Scientist, Stanford Healthcare, Stanford, CA, United States

Dr Til Stürmer, Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Professor Gianluca Trifirò, Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Italy

Professor Hisashi Urushihara, Division of Drug Development and Regulatory Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Japan

Dr Nick van Es, Department of Vascular Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Professor Vasiliy Vlassov, Society for Evidence Based Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Professor Noel Weiss, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, United States

Prof. Dr. Siyan Zhan, Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Third Hospital, China Mainland (PRC)

Abstracting and indexing

Clinical Epidemiology is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

EMBASE (Elsevier)

Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition

Pubmed (NLM)

PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)

Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)

Scopus (Elsevier)

Open access

Clinical Epidemiology is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

To publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis. Discounts and waivers may also be available for researchers in selected countries when publishing in open access journals.

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