AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology – New Open Access Journal from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

In partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce the launch of AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology. The journal will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research from a wide, interdisciplinary community of scholars and clinicians, and will provide an inclusive, trustworthy, open access (OA) venue for the global scientific community, basing editorial decisions on validity, expanding knowledge and overall value to the scientific record. The first issue of the journal is expected to be published in early 2025.

Owned by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, with an affiliation to the Society for Epidemiologic Research, The journal will publish across the breadth of epidemiology, including emerging branches of research such as social epidemiology. AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology is the third publication in the Bloomberg School’s portfolio of journals, which also includes the high-impact titles American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiologic Reviews, and will further support the Bloomberg School’s mission to keep millions around the world safe from illness and injury by pioneering new research, deploying knowledge in the field, and educating tomorrow’s public health leaders.

Speaking about the new agreement, Deborah Dixon, Publishing Director at OUP, said: “We are delighted to further our collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Society for Epidemiologic Research to publish their new journal, AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology, and are confident that the close alignment of our shared missions will continue to drive the impact and reach of the research publish in this important field.”

On the launch of the new journal, Professor David Celentano, Editor-in-Chief AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology, said: “Epidemiologic research is rapidly evolving in many ways, including new technologies, artificial intelligence, -omics writ large, genetics and the central role of inflammation in chronic disease. As a result of the SARS CoV-19 epidemic, the science of epidemiology is now much more appreciated and the community of scientists has further expanded, leading to greater needs for scientific communication.”

About Oxford University Press

OUP publishes over 500 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, three-quarters of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. OUP has been publishing journals for more than a century and, as the world’s largest university press, has more than 500 years of publishing expertise.

About the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Founded in 1916 as the world’s first independent degree-granting school of public health, the Bloomberg School (now the largest school of public health in the world) works to keep millions around the world safe from illness and injury by pioneering new research, deploying knowledge in the field, and educating tomorrow’s public health leaders.

Defined by academic excellence, pioneering research, and the translation of knowledge into practice, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been a vanguard of public health for more than a century, providing population-level solutions to urgent public health problems around the world.

About the Society for Epidemiologic Research

Established in 1968 to foster epidemiologic research, the Society for Epidemiologic Research is the oldest and largest general epidemiology society in North America. It’s mission is to is to keep epidemiologists at the vanguard of scientific developments. To this end, the Society sponsors the American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiologic Reviews, as well as the annual SER meeting which includes the John C. Cassel Memorial Lecture, Tyroler Student Prize Paper, contributed papers, symposia, and posters on a wide range of epidemiologic issues.