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Journal of Health and Social Behavior Template

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About the Journal of Health and Social Behavior format

Journal of Health and Social Behavior is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Health disparities and outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving. Over its lifetime it has published 2,245 papers, which have received 333,802 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inHealth disparities and outcomes Employment and Welfare Studies Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving Mental Health Treatment and Access Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
ISSN0022-1465
Citation impact (2-yr)3.07
h-index259
i10-index1,668
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Michigan
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior per year

40
2014
39
2015
38
2016
41
2017
43
2018
36
2019
37
2020
55
2021
40
2022
48
2023
52
2024
47
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Health and Social Behavior by publication year

2.5K
2014
2.1K
2015
1.7K
2016
1.6K
2017
2.5K
2018
1.2K
2019
1.3K
2020
2.1K
2021
778
2022
482
2023
299
2024
47
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Health and Social Behavior

A Global Measure of Perceived Stress

Sheldon Cohen, Tom Kamarck, Robin Mermelstein · 1 Dec 1983

This paper presents evidence from three samples, two of college students and one of participants in a community smoking-cessation program, for the reliability and validity of a 14-item instrument, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), designed to measure the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful. The PSS showed adequate reliability and,…

32,624 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Self-Rated Health and Mortality: A Review of Twenty-Seven Community Studies

Ellen Idler, Yael Benyamini · 1 Mar 1997

We examine the growing number of studies of survey respondents' global self-ratings of health as predictors of mortality in longitudinal studies of representative community samples. Twenty-seven studies in U.S. and international journals show impressively consistent findings. Global self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality in nearly all of the studies, despite the inclusion of…

8,636 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
An Analysis of Coping in a Middle-Aged Community Sample

Susan Folkman, Richard S. Lazarus · 1 Sep 1980

This study analyzes the ways 100 community-residing men and women aged 45 to 64 coped with the stressful events of daily living during one year. Lazarus's cognitive-phenomenological analysis of psychological stress provides the theoreticalframework. Information about recently experienced stressful encounters was elicited through monthly interviews and self-report questionnaires completed between interviews. At the end of…

6,351 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease

Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan · 1 Jan 1995

Bruce G. Link, Jo Phelan, Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Extra Issue: Forty Years of Medical Sociology: The State of the Art and Directions for the Future (1995), pp. 80-94

5,627 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Journal of Health and Social Behavior template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Journal of Health and Social Behavior template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Journal of Health and Social Behavior use?
Journal of Health and Social Behavior uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Journal of Health and Social Behavior?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Journal of Health and Social Behavior document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Journal of Health and Social Behavior template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Journal of Health and Social Behavior format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is Journal of Health and Social Behavior?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
Can I export a submission-ready Journal of Health and Social Behavior PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Journal of Health and Social Behavior template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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