Economics and Human Biology

Economics and Human Biology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 2003 with J. Komlos as founding editor-in-chief. The journal covers research on biological economics — economics in the context of human biology and public or occupational health. The editors-in-chief are Susan Averett (Lafayette College), Joerg Baten (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen), and Pinka Chatterji (University at Albany).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • CAB Abstracts

• Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences

• EconLit

• Embase

• Food Science and Technology Abstracts

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Scopus

• Social Sciences Citation Index According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.5.