Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Discipline	Psychiatry
Language	English
Edited by	Thomas Joiner
Publication details
History	1971-present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association of Suicidology
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.333 (2011)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Suicide Life-Threat. Behav.
NLM	Suicide Life Threat Behav
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1943-278X
OCLC no.	645274714
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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior is a peer-reviewed academic journal published six times per year by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association of Suicidology. The journal was established in 1971 by Edwin S. Shneidman. Its current editor-in-chief is Thomas Joiner (Florida State University). The journal covers scientific research on suicidal and other life-threatening behaviors, including risk factors for suicide, ethical issues in intervention research, and mental health needs of those bereaved by suicide.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 1.333, ranking it 45th out of 125 journals in the category "Psychology Multidisciplinary" and 60th out of 117 journals in the category "Psychiatry (Social Science)".[1]

References

1. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology Multidisciplinary". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.

Further reading

• Cardinal, Charles (2008). "Three Decades of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior: A Bibliometric Study". Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 38 (3): 260–73. doi:10.1521/suli.2008.38.3.260. PMID 18611125.

External links

• Official website