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British Journal of Health Psychology

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Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ15757986 ↗
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The British Journal of Health Psychology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering health psychology. It was established in 1996, when it was split off from the existing British Journal of Clinical Psychology. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Psychological Society. The editors-in-chief are Madelynne Arden (Sheffield Hallam University) and Joseph Chilcot (King's College London). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2.472, ranking it 45th out of 130 journals in the category "Psychology, Clinical".

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This entry incorporates text from “British Journal of Health Psychology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.