About
Acceptance Rate:
30%
Time to first decision with review:
69 days*
Time from acceptance to publication:
36 days*
Citescore:
2.3
SciMago Journal Rank:
0.402
2021 total content views:
278,974
Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large. Led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health.
For information about Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Dr Brandy Schillace and her editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Medical Humanities is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics.
Plan S compliance
Medical Humanities is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Transformative Journals are one of the compliance routes offered by cOAlition S funders, such as Wellcome, WHO and UKRI. Find out more about Transformative Journals and Plan S compliance on our Author Hub.
Journal information
Ownership
Medical Humanities is co-owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ. Medical Humanities is provided as a membership benefit to members of the Association of Medical Humanities.
Publication model
Subscription; with hybrid open access option
Frequency
Quarterly
Launch date
2000
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents: Arts and Humanities, MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central (BMJ Open Access Special Collection), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), Google Scholar
Peer Review Model
Double anonymised; both the reviewer and the author are anonymous to each other
Print ISSN
1468-215X
Online ISSN
1473-4265
Journal Statistics (2021)
Acceptance rate: 30%
Speed
Time to first decision without review (median): 12 days
Time to first decision with review (median): 69 days
Time from acceptance to publication (median): 36 days
Impact
Citescore: 2.3
Citescore rank: 61/718
SciMago Journal Rank: 0.402
Journal Citation Indicator: 4.72
Arts & Humanities Citation Index JCI Rank: 2/150 (Humanities Multidisciplinary category)
Reach
2021 total content views: 278,974
2021 total Altmetric mentions: 789
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
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Affiliations
The Journal of Medical Ethics is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics.
BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.