American Journal of Health Education

American Journal of Health Education is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, School Health and Nursing Education and Physical Activity and Health, together about 32.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The mission of the American Journal of Health Education (AJHE) is to publish high quality manuscripts that focus on Health Education and Health Promotion initiatives designed to prevent or delay the onset of the major chronic diseases and illnesses that impact populations of interest today (CVD, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, COPD, cirrhosis, arthritis, osteoporosis, etc.). In addition, AJHE is actively seeking manuscripts that inform the discussion on the role of lifestyle behaviors (nutrition/diet, physical activity, weight management, tobacco use prevention, stress control, self-management of chronic disease, emotional and social functioning, alcohol and other drugs abuse, etc.) in chronic disease management. Manuscript reporting on research conducted in community, medical care, worksite and school/university settings are encouraged. AJHE is particularly interested in manuscripts that focus on interventions related to the primary prevention of chronic disease from a social ecological perspective that conceptualized the role of individual, interpersonal, institutional, community and policy factors on lifestyle behaviors. Manuscripts grounded in health behavior theory are also encouraged. Health Education and Health Promotion are applied disciplines. Therefore, each manuscript should provide a clear discussion of how the research links together researchers and practitioners through professional practice in a section titled Translation to Health Education Practice. For papers published in AJHE , the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Inc. (NCHEC) Areas of Responsibility and Competencies can frame the Translation to Health Education Practice discussion ( www.nchec.org). The Translation to Health Education Practice section has two major purposes: 1) to inform Health Educators on how the methods and results of your study can assist them to design, Implement and evaluate similar interventions in their respective populations of interest, and 2) to explain the role of Health Educators and Certified Health Education Specialists in the design, implementation and evaluation of the study. In the Translation section, authors should consider how the knowledge skills, and processes inherent in the NCHEC Responsibilities, Competencies and Sub-Competencies were used to design the initiative and led to research outcomes. When applicable, authors are encouraged to expand the discussion of results in the Translation section to show the cost benefit of t

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Editor-in-chief J. Don Chaney, PhD, MCHESPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePubMedCAB AbstractsERICPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, AGRICOLA, CABI, EBSCOhost, Elsevier BV, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Gale, National Library of Medicine, Ovid, Taylor & Francis, Thomson Reuters

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

1.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.35LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.35Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.49LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.49Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

50OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

383OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

6.43%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

28LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

92,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

19%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

11 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

35 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

27 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1932-5037

Electronic ISSN

2168-3751

Society / sponsor

SHAPE America

Latest issue on the website

Volume 57, Issue 5 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website