Open Access
Open access

BMC Public Health

Springer Nature
Springer Nature
ISSN: 14712458
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
3.5
SJR
1.253
CiteScore
6.5
Categories
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Areas
Medicine
Years of issue
2001-2025
journal names
BMC Public Health
Publications
27 706
Citations
612 915
h-index
207
Publications
13 328
Citations
382 726
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 organizations
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (561 publications)
Karolinska Institute
Karolinska Institute (561 publications)
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (241 publications)
Karolinska Institute
Karolinska Institute (214 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (5728 publications)
United Kingdom (4151 publications)
China (3537 publications)
USA (2539 publications)
China (2237 publications)
United Kingdom (1615 publications)

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BMC Public Health
27380 citations, 4.47%
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20885 citations, 3.41%
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20585 citations, 3.36%
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9353 citations, 1.53%
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4072 citations, 0.66%
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2598 citations, 0.42%
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2459 citations, 0.4%
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2385 citations, 0.39%
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2328 citations, 0.38%
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2288 citations, 0.37%
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2059 citations, 0.34%
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1803 citations, 0.29%
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1802 citations, 0.29%
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1798 citations, 0.29%
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1744 citations, 0.28%
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1657 citations, 0.27%
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1629 citations, 0.27%
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1623 citations, 0.26%
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1516 citations, 0.25%
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1472 citations, 0.24%
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1460 citations, 0.24%
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1358 citations, 0.22%
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1035 citations, 0.17%
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1005 citations, 0.16%
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853 citations, 0.14%
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714 citations, 0.12%
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690 citations, 0.11%
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689 citations, 0.11%
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609 citations, 0.1%
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597 citations, 0.1%
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