BMJ
Last updated ISSN 1756-1833
BMJ is an academic journal in health professions. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMJ concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Key facts
| Publisher | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1756-1833 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 64,230 |
| Publishing since | 1997 |
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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