Military Behavioral Health

Military Behavioral Health is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Education and Military Integration and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, together about 46.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Military Behavioral Health: An International Journal of Research and Community Studyis the flagship journal aggregating current knowledge about the biopsychosocial health and well-being of service members, veterans, and families impacted by military service. The journal will disseminate peer-reviewed, high-quality behavioral health research related to this population to a broad domestic and international, multidisciplinary audience. Disciplines whose work contributes to the corpus of Military Behavioral Health knowledge include, but are not limited to: Social Work, Psychology, Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, and Anthropology. Research found in Military Behavioral Health will adhere to the National Institutes of Health Guidelines of behavioral and social sciences research in that it is not restricted by discipline or methodological approach, but is characterized by the following attributes: an emphasis on theory-driven research; the search for general principles of behavioral and social functioning; he importance ascribed to a developmental, lifespan perspective that reflects resilience as well as challenges; an emphasis on individual variation, and variation across sociodemographics categories such as gender, age, and sociocultural status; and a focus on both the social and biological contexts of behavior. Topics of interest to the journal include behavioral health issues at both the micro and macro levels. MICRO LEVEL (Co)Morbidity of behavioral health issues in veterans and military families Evidence-based clinical practices Family maltreatment Substance use/abuse Medical social work/care management Child/Adolescent/Geriatrics Forensic behavioral health Military detention facilities/Detainees Behavioral health risk assessment Trauma, sexual assault, PTSD School-based interventions Prevention/resiliency enhancement Traumatic brain injuries Family/child coping with loss MACRO LEVEL Program evaluation Education/Training programs Impact of policy on units/individuals Impact of leadership on group well-being Deployment acculturation Research technologies/methodologies Program management Accession/Retention of behavioral health professionals Cost containment School/Command consultation Unit/Organizational needs assessment Preventative Medicine Epidemiology Cross-cultural assessment/treatment Civilian affairs and nation building Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 8

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Editor-in-chief Samuel OdomPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 2022

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

National Center for PTSD DatabasePublisher website

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.5LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.5Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher) 2022

1.5Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.24LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.24Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR (publisher) 2022

0.36Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.57LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.57Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SNIP (publisher) 2022

0.72Publisher website · 2026-11-01

h-index

26OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

100OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Volume

Downloads per year (publisher)

32,000Publisher website · 2026-11-01

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.

Acceptance rate (publisher)

52%Publisher website · 2026-11-01

Submission to first decision

90 daysPublisher website · 2026-11-01

Acceptance to publication

15 daysPublisher website · 2026-11-01

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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

2163-5781

Electronic ISSN

2163-5803

Latest issue on the website

Volume 13, Issue 1 (2025)

Official links

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