''Economics and Human Biology'' is a quarterly

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published by

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. It was established in 2003 with J. Komlos as founding

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. The journal covers research on

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—

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in the context of

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and

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. The editors-in-chief are Susan Averett (

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), Joerg Baten ( Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen), and Pinka Chatterji (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2022

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of 2.5.

References

External links

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