BMC Palliative Care
Last updated ISSN 1472-684X
BMC Palliative Care is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,990.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Palliative Care concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Palliative and Oncologic Care
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1472-684X |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,990 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 2,563 |
| Publishing since | 1991 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/12904 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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