European Journal of Epidemiology


The European Journal of Epidemiology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases and their control. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Albert Hofman. The journal was established in 1985 with Antiono Sanna as founding editor.

Editors-in-chief

Sanna served as editor for 6 years, until 1992. He was succeeded by Carlo Chezzi, after which Claude Hannoun took over. Hannoun changed the direction of the journal, expanding the scope to include population health and non-communicable diseases. Finally, Albert Hofman became editor in 2002.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 6.529.