Academic Journal
Q1Social Science & Medicine
About Social Science & Medicine
Social Science & Medicine is a scholarly journal published by Elsevier Ltd. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 1.851 and an H-index of 309.
Its listed coverage is 1967-1980, 1982-2026 and its research categories include Health (social science) (Q1); History and Philosophy of Science (Q1); Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 956 documents and 13342 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Health disparities and outcomes, Global Health Care Issues, Employment and Welfare Studies, Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Policy and Management, Migration, Health and Trauma.
Recent Research Articles
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Tamkinat Rauf, Jeremy Freese
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Stephanie H. Cook, Benjamin Pettus
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Max Lisch, Mateo Farina
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119795How common is resilience? A growth mixture modelling analysis of well-being trajectories after disability onset in later life
Thibault Köhler, Bram Vanhoutte
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Kevin Singh
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Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Philipa Mladovsky
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Caroline M. Barry, Weihua An
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Maria Concetta Lo Bosco
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119835Double jeopardy: Health-protective effects of educational attainment are stronger in deprived neighbourhoods
Franz Fuerst, Gabriel Hollis
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119722“It changed me, who I am”: How parents with children in the forensic mental health system in Ontario, Canada experience the transformation of their identities
Jean-Laurent Domingue, Etienne Paradis-Gagné, Jennifer Neves, Steven Michel et al.
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119784“This didn't exist back then”: A focus group study on adolescents' account of mental illness perceptions in the context of family, peers, and social media
Dora Weubel, Hannah Bauer, Kathrin Karsay, Ruth Wendt et al.
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119746The associations between household food insecurity and cancer: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies among adults
Faramarz Jalili, Catherine L. Mah, Michael Lebenbaum, Sanaz Mehrabani et al.
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119756Choreographing care and restraint: Managing acute distress in recovery-oriented psychiatric inpatient wards
Thorben Peter Høj Simonsen, Claudia Egher
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119791Does menstrual cycle tracking enhance female athlete health and performance? Evaluating five implicit assumptions of an emerging paradigm
Meredith W. Reiches, Marina DiMarco, Katharine M.N. Lee, Madeleine S. Pape et al.
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119790Responsibility beyond accountability: Navigating trust and control in Swedish primary care purchasing
Helena Lagerlöf, Morten Sager
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119831Swallowed silence, strategic silence, and safe disclosure: A multi-level framework for understanding non-disclosure among internally displaced women experiencing gender-based violence
Patrice Ngangue, Souleymane Bayoulou, Fanny Nadia Dissak-Delon
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119816Safety prioritization beyond efficiency: The role of age, health status, and ingroup preferences
Judith Covey, Danae Arroyos-Calvera, Rebecca McDonald
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119825Adverse birth outcomes and intergenerational exposure to multiple dimensions of structural racism among Black families in the U.S. South
Nancy L. Fleischer, Woo Jung Lee, Yanmei Xie, Kristi L. Allgood et al.
2026-11 · DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119811Reviews
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