Disseminating Timely Peer-Reviewed Content in 2020: COVID-19 and Chronic Disease, Public Health and Pharmacy, Eliminating Health Disparities, Global Health, and Student Research

摘要

This year has been challenging in numerous ways, and it has been imperative for all of us in the public health field to respond decisively to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency in the short-term and in the long-term to look for new ways to address health disparities that have been highlighted by COVID-19. Now more than ever, Preventing Chronic Disease ( PCD ) is committed to its mission to provide peer-reviewed content that promotes dialogue among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers worldwide and advances the field of public health as a whole. PCD has seen the success of its efforts reflected in the annual increase in the journal’s impact factor. In July 2020, PCD received its new Journal Impact Factor of 2.144, a jump from 2.038 the previous year in the Web of Science Journal Citation Reports. PCD’ s other metrics are also strong: the journal has a Scimago Journal and Country Rank of 22 out of 145 US journals in the category of Public, Environmental and Occupational Health. PCD is also ranked third of 19 open access US journals in this category.