The Journal of Religion and Health (JORH) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was founded in 1961 by the Blanton-Peale Institute and published by Springer Science+Business Media. JORH seeks to publish contemporary quantitative and qualitative religious, pastoral and spiritual care research which utilizes current medical, psychological and sociological theories and praxis. A number of academic bibliometric analyses have noted JORH over the last decade which are publicly available (Lucchetti & Lucchetti, 2014; Senel & Demir, 2018; Demir, 2019; Cheng & Peng, 2024; Hdoge et al 2024), the most extensive covering from 1961–2021 (Carey, Kumar, Goyle & Ali, 2023)[1]. Over the decades, while JORH has accepted a wide range of research, a notable distinction in comparison to other peer reviewed journals in the field, is the refusal of JORH from 2024 to consider religiosity/ spirituality research which has utilized potentially problematic contaminated scales (Koenig & Carey, 2024).
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| Discipline | Psychology, Religion, Health, Sociology, Spirituality |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Assoc. Prof. Lindsay B. Carey |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1961–present (62 Years) |
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| Frequency | 6 Issues per annum |
| 2.8 (2.639 5 year) (2022) | |
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| ISO 4 | J. Relig. Health |
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| CODEN | JRHEAT |
| ISSN | 0022-4197 (print) 1573-6571 (web) |
| LCCN | 64006093 |
| JSTOR | 00224197 |
| OCLC no. | 44707874 |
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Abstracting and indexing
editThe journal is abstracted and indexed by in the following bibliographic databases:[2]
References
edit- ^ Carey, L.B. (2023). "A Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal of Religion and Health: Sixty Years of Publication (1961–2021)". Journal of Religion and Health. 62 (1): 8–38 – via CINAHL.
- ^ "Journal of Religion & Health". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2019-08-10.