Ochsner Journal
Last updated ISSN 1524-5012
Ochsner Journal is published by Ochsner Clinic Foundation in medicine. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Ochsner Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- History of Medical Practice
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Ethics in medical practice
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Health Sciences Research and Education
Key facts
| Publisher | Ochsner Clinic Foundation |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1524-5012 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 678 |
| Publishing since | 1930 |
| Journal website | www.ochsnerjournal.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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