A science journal for public health
Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità is a peer reviewed quarterly science journal which publishes research articles in biomedicine, translational research and in many other disciplines of the health sciences. The journal includes the following material: original articles, reviews, commentaries, editorials, brief and technical notes, book reviews.
Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità is indexed in: CAB, CHEMABS, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, FSTA, MEDLINE, ProQuest, SCOPUS, WEB OF SCIENCE.
Annali is an open access journal and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Its articles are published under a CC BY-NC-ND license.

Vol. 62 No. 2 (2026)
Original Articles
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Legal responses to new psychoactive substances in Europe: countries inside the REITOX network, Norway, and Türkiye
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Comparative analysis of the information reported on labels of medicinal products containing new active substances between Europe and the USA
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Occurrence of formaldehyde exposures in work activities and its diffusion in the Italian industrial context following the notification requirements
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Pain prevalence and severity in an Italian university hospital: a cross-sectional study
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Optimizing sample preparation for homogeneous mycotoxin distribution in official control analyses
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Evaluating the usefulness of the Mediterranean Diet Quality Index (KIDMED) in assessing eating habits and nutritional status among preschool children
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Women’s experiences of membrane sweeping for labour induction: a phenomenological qualitative study
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Addressing food and nutrition insecurity in European countries: a scoping review of strategies and policies
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Spontaneous orienting of untrained companion dogs naïve to human epilepsy toward odor samples from an unfamiliar human in a controlled non-social paradigm: a proof-of-concept
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External quality assessment programs in cytogenomics in the Lombardy Region, Italy (2018-2024): performance and trends
Book Reviews, Notes and Comments
Publications from International Organizations on Public Health
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Announcements
Annali most cited paper award
Lanfranco Fattorini, Roberta Creti, Carla Palma, Annalisa Pantosti, and the Unit of Antibiotic Resistance and Special Pathogens, were awarded for their excellent scientific contribution published in the Annali dell' Istituto Superiore di Sanità (most cited paper award). Read moreThe Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2024 Impact Factor
The 2024 Impact Factor for the journal Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità is 1.7
Read moreCOVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the deadlines associated with our peer review process.
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InterviewNichelli
INTERVIEW WITH PAOLO NICHELLI
by Enrico Alleva
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