Journal of General Internal Medicine
Last updated ISSN 0884-8734
Journal of General Internal Medicine is published by Springer Science+Business Media in health professions. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $5,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of General Internal Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0884-8734, 1525-1497 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $5,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 15,438 |
| Publishing since | 1878 |
| Journal website | www.jgim.org/ |
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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