Medical Care
Last updated ISSN 0025-7079
Medical Care is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in economics, econometrics and finance. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Medical Care concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
Key facts
| Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0025-7079, 1537-1948 |
| Subject area | Economics, Econometrics and Finance |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 9,817 |
| Publishing since | 1961 |
| Journal website | journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/Pages/default.aspx |
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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