MMWR Surveillance Summaries
Last updated ISSN 1545-8636
MMWR Surveillance Summaries is published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in medicine. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in MMWR Surveillance Summaries concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Key facts
| Publisher | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1545-8636, 1546-0738 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 129 |
| Publishing since | 1996 |
| Journal website | www.cdc.gov/mmwr |
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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