en Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

*Journal of Clinical Epidemiology*
Discipline	Epidemiology
Language	English
Edited by	David Tovey and Peter Tugwell
Publication details
History	1988–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	monthly
Impact factor	6.437 (2020)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Clin. Epidemiol.
Indexing;
ISSN	0895-4356 (print); 1878-5921 (web);
OCLC no.	1011201451
Links
	Journal homepage;

The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed journal of epidemiology. The journal was originally established as the Journal of Chronic Diseases in 1955 as a follow-up to Harry S. Truman's 1951 Presidential Task Force on national health concerns and the subsequently written Magnuson Report.^[2]

Under the editorial leadership of Alvan Feinstein and Walter O. Spitzer, the title of the journal was changed to the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology with the January 1988 issue.^[3] The current editors are André Knottnerus (Netherlands School of Primary Care Research) and Peter Tugwell (University of Ottawa).^[4]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 Impact Factor of 6.437, ranking it 5th out of 108 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services".^[5]