BMC Public Health
Last updated ISSN 1471-2458
BMC Public Health is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Public Health concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Physical Activity and Health
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1471-2458 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 35,496 |
| Publishing since | 1858 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/12889 |
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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