Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, W313 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, USA.
J Behav Med. 2019 Feb;42(1):12-15. doi: 10.1007/s10865-018-9959-y. Epub 2019 Mar 1.
The inception, development, and rise of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine (JOBM) has paralleled that of the field of behavioral medicine. Under the leadership of founding editor, W. Doyle Gentry, published its first issue in 1978. The subsequent 40 years have seen JOBM progress to the level of a top tier journal publishing inter-disciplinary work devoted to furthering understanding of physical health and illness through the theories and methodologies of behavioral science. In recent years, JOBM has become a prominent international platform for scientific communication in the field of behavioral medicine. The present article examines many of the important milestones JOBM has achieved and examines the scope and impact of the most highly cited papers in the journal's history. As Stephen Weiss and Gary Schwartz predicted 40 years ago, behavioral medicine is in a unique and powerful position to address a broad range of issues surrounding individual, community, and population health. It is the hope of the current editorial team that in the next 40 years the journal will facilitate a broadening of the clinical and public health contexts that the science and practice of behavioral medicine addresses and informs.
《行为医学杂志》（JOBM）的诞生、发展和兴起与行为医学领域的发展是并行的。在创始编辑 W. Doyle Gentry 的领导下，该杂志于 1978 年出版了第一期。在随后的 40 年里，JOBM 已发展成为一个顶级期刊，发表跨学科的工作，致力于通过行为科学的理论和方法来进一步理解身体健康和疾病。近年来，JOBM 已成为行为医学领域科学交流的一个重要国际平台。本文考察了 JOBM 取得的许多重要里程碑，并考察了该杂志历史上被引用最多的论文的范围和影响。正如 Stephen Weiss 和 Gary Schwartz 在 40 年前预测的那样，行为医学处于一个独特而强大的位置，可以解决围绕个人、社区和人口健康的广泛问题。现任编辑团队希望在未来的 40 年里，该杂志将促进行为医学的科学和实践所涉及的临床和公共卫生背景的扩大和丰富。
