Canadian Medical Association Journal
Last updated ISSN 0820-3946
Canadian Medical Association Journal is published by Canadian Medical Association in health professions. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,553.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Canadian Medical Association Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Key facts
| Publisher | Canadian Medical Association |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0820-3946, 1488-2329 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,553 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 15,908 |
| Publishing since | 1912 |
| Journal website | www.cmaj.ca/ |
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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