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
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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, DenmarkDr 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.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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