Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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ISSN: 00075140, 10863176

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SCImago
Q2
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
0.8
SJR
0.188
CiteScore
0.8
Categories
History
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Nursing (miscellaneous)
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Medicine
Nursing
Years of issue
1945-2023, 2025
journal names
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
B HIST MED
Publications
3 933
Citations
8 559
h-index
33
Publications
286
Citations
3 102
Top-3 citing journals
Isis
Isis (565 citations)
Economic History Review
Economic History Review (76 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
USA (130 publications)
United Kingdom (44 publications)
Canada (18 publications)
Germany (1 publication)
USA (1 publication)

Most cited in 5 years

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Top-100

Citing journals

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Isis
565 citations, 6.6%
Social History of Medicine
78 citations, 0.91%
Economic History Review
76 citations, 0.89%
Medical History
72 citations, 0.84%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
70 citations, 0.82%
PLoS ONE
53 citations, 0.62%
History Compass
46 citations, 0.54%
Medical Humanities
41 citations, 0.48%
Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
41 citations, 0.48%
Social Science and Medicine
39 citations, 0.46%
Journal of Virology
38 citations, 0.44%
History of Psychiatry
36 citations, 0.42%
The Lancet
36 citations, 0.42%
Osiris
33 citations, 0.39%
British Journal for the History of Science
32 citations, 0.37%
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
31 citations, 0.36%
History of the Human Sciences
30 citations, 0.35%
Vaccine
29 citations, 0.34%
SSRN Electronic Journal
29 citations, 0.34%
Social Studies of Science
28 citations, 0.33%
American Journal of Public Health
27 citations, 0.32%
Journal of American History
26 citations, 0.3%
BioSocieties
25 citations, 0.29%
Journal of Medical Biography
23 citations, 0.27%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
22 citations, 0.26%
Centaurus
22 citations, 0.26%
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
21 citations, 0.25%
Viruses
20 citations, 0.23%
Journal of the History of Biology
20 citations, 0.23%
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
19 citations, 0.22%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
17 citations, 0.2%
Frontiers in Immunology
17 citations, 0.2%
Sociology of Health and Illness
17 citations, 0.2%
East Asian Science, Technology and Society
17 citations, 0.2%
Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
16 citations, 0.19%
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
15 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Infectious Diseases
15 citations, 0.18%
Science in Context
15 citations, 0.18%
Emerging Infectious Diseases
14 citations, 0.16%
Annals of Internal Medicine
14 citations, 0.16%
Virology
13 citations, 0.15%
Environmental History
13 citations, 0.15%
Milbank Quarterly
13 citations, 0.15%
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
13 citations, 0.15%
NTM International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine
13 citations, 0.15%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
13 citations, 0.15%
Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
13 citations, 0.15%
Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine
12 citations, 0.14%
Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses
12 citations, 0.14%
Academic Medicine
12 citations, 0.14%
Nursing Inquiry
12 citations, 0.14%
Historical Journal
12 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Medical Humanities
12 citations, 0.14%
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
11 citations, 0.13%
Journal of British Studies
11 citations, 0.13%
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
11 citations, 0.13%
BMC Infectious Diseases
11 citations, 0.13%
The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research
11 citations, 0.13%
History of Science
10 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
10 citations, 0.12%
Scientific Reports
10 citations, 0.12%
American Journal of Epidemiology
10 citations, 0.12%
New Genetics and Society
10 citations, 0.12%
Vaccines
10 citations, 0.12%
Cureus
10 citations, 0.12%
History and Technology
9 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
9 citations, 0.11%
Enterprise and Society
9 citations, 0.11%
New England Journal of Medicine
9 citations, 0.11%
Family and Community History
9 citations, 0.11%
Nature
9 citations, 0.11%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
9 citations, 0.11%
Annals of Anatomy
9 citations, 0.11%
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
9 citations, 0.11%
Science Technology and Human Values
9 citations, 0.11%
International Journal of Epidemiology
9 citations, 0.11%
French Historical Studies
9 citations, 0.11%
American Journal of Human Biology
9 citations, 0.11%
Body and Society
9 citations, 0.11%
Endeavour
9 citations, 0.11%
Nursing Outlook
9 citations, 0.11%
BMJ
9 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Asian Studies
8 citations, 0.09%
Annales de Demographie Historique
8 citations, 0.09%
Health (United Kingdom)
8 citations, 0.09%
Palgrave Communications
8 citations, 0.09%
Future Virology
8 citations, 0.09%
mBio
8 citations, 0.09%
Atlantic Studies : Global Currents
8 citations, 0.09%
Asian Medicine
8 citations, 0.09%
Public Health Reports
8 citations, 0.09%
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
8 citations, 0.09%
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
8 citations, 0.09%
Historiographies of Science
8 citations, 0.09%
Microbes and Infection
7 citations, 0.08%
HAHR - Hispanic American Historical Review
7 citations, 0.08%
Anatomical Sciences Education
7 citations, 0.08%
Microorganisms
7 citations, 0.08%
Early Modern Women
7 citations, 0.08%
BMC Medical Education
7 citations, 0.08%
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Cambridge University Press
1253 citations, 14.64%
Elsevier
888 citations, 10.38%
Springer Nature
803 citations, 9.38%
University of Chicago Press
632 citations, 7.38%
Wiley
625 citations, 7.3%
Taylor & Francis
544 citations, 6.36%
SAGE
402 citations, 4.7%
Oxford University Press
243 citations, 2.84%
Duke University Press
183 citations, 2.14%
MDPI
158 citations, 1.85%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
116 citations, 1.36%
BMJ
85 citations, 0.99%
Frontiers Media S.A.
77 citations, 0.9%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
72 citations, 0.84%
American Society for Microbiology
59 citations, 0.69%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
58 citations, 0.68%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
50 citations, 0.58%
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
40 citations, 0.47%
Emerald
31 citations, 0.36%
CAIRN
31 citations, 0.36%
Mary Ann Liebert
30 citations, 0.35%
SciELO
30 citations, 0.35%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
28 citations, 0.33%
American Public Health Association
27 citations, 0.32%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
23 citations, 0.27%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
22 citations, 0.26%
OpenEdition
21 citations, 0.25%
IGI Global
18 citations, 0.21%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
18 citations, 0.21%
Hindawi Limited
17 citations, 0.2%
Brill
16 citations, 0.19%
University of California Press
15 citations, 0.18%
The Royal Society
15 citations, 0.18%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
14 citations, 0.16%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
14 citations, 0.16%
American College of Physicians
14 citations, 0.16%
S. Karger AG
13 citations, 0.15%
Walter de Gruyter
12 citations, 0.14%
American Medical Association (AMA)
12 citations, 0.14%
Massachusetts Medical Society
11 citations, 0.13%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
11 citations, 0.13%
MIT Press
10 citations, 0.12%
Edinburgh University Press
9 citations, 0.11%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
9 citations, 0.11%
Annual Reviews
9 citations, 0.11%
American Psychological Association (APA)
9 citations, 0.11%
JMIR Publications
9 citations, 0.11%
Editions Odile Jacob
8 citations, 0.09%
Consortium Erudit
8 citations, 0.09%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
7 citations, 0.08%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
7 citations, 0.08%
University of Maryland
7 citations, 0.08%
Microbiology Society
6 citations, 0.07%
Editions E D K
6 citations, 0.07%
IntechOpen
6 citations, 0.07%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
6 citations, 0.07%
Indiana University Press
5 citations, 0.06%
American Speech Language Hearing Association
5 citations, 0.06%
IOS Press
4 citations, 0.05%
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
4 citations, 0.05%
American Physiological Society
4 citations, 0.05%
National Medical Association
4 citations, 0.05%
Scientific Research Publishing
4 citations, 0.05%
AOSIS
4 citations, 0.05%
European Molecular Biology Organization
4 citations, 0.05%
EDP Sciences
3 citations, 0.04%
Liverpool University Press
3 citations, 0.04%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
3 citations, 0.04%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
3 citations, 0.04%
Eco-Vector LLC
3 citations, 0.04%
3 citations, 0.04%
University of Colorado
3 citations, 0.04%
American Thoracic Society
3 citations, 0.04%
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
3 citations, 0.04%
Medknow
3 citations, 0.04%
PERSEE Program
3 citations, 0.04%
JSTOR
3 citations, 0.04%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
3 citations, 0.04%
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG
3 citations, 0.04%
SLACK
3 citations, 0.04%
2 citations, 0.02%
2 citations, 0.02%
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
2 citations, 0.02%
AIP Publishing
2 citations, 0.02%
Springer Publishing Company
2 citations, 0.02%
2 citations, 0.02%
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
2 citations, 0.02%
The Company of Biologists
2 citations, 0.02%
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2 citations, 0.02%
Health Affairs (Project Hope)
2 citations, 0.02%
Linkoping University Electronic Press
2 citations, 0.02%
Edizioni Minerva Medica
2 citations, 0.02%
AME Publishing Company
2 citations, 0.02%
Fundacao Getulio Vargas
2 citations, 0.02%
Editions Antipodes
2 citations, 0.02%
ISCTE-IUL
2 citations, 0.02%
IOP Publishing
2 citations, 0.02%
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
2 citations, 0.02%
2 citations, 0.02%
Alcohol and Drugs History Society
2 citations, 0.02%
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
8 publications, 0.2%
Yale University
7 publications, 0.18%
Harvard University
7 publications, 0.18%
University of Pennsylvania
6 publications, 0.15%
University of Manchester
5 publications, 0.13%
University of Warwick
4 publications, 0.1%
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
4 publications, 0.1%
University of California, Los Angeles
4 publications, 0.1%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
4 publications, 0.1%
University of Toronto
4 publications, 0.1%
University College London
3 publications, 0.08%
Oxford Brookes University
3 publications, 0.08%
University of Oxford
3 publications, 0.08%
Johns Hopkins University
3 publications, 0.08%
University of Sydney
3 publications, 0.08%
Pennsylvania State University
3 publications, 0.08%
Columbia University
3 publications, 0.08%
University of California, San Francisco
3 publications, 0.08%
University of Michigan
3 publications, 0.08%
McGill University
3 publications, 0.08%
University of Minnesota
3 publications, 0.08%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3 publications, 0.08%
University of Liverpool
2 publications, 0.05%
University of Copenhagen
2 publications, 0.05%
King's College London
2 publications, 0.05%
Drexel University
2 publications, 0.05%
University of Glasgow
2 publications, 0.05%
Children's Hospital at Westmead
2 publications, 0.05%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2 publications, 0.05%
Ohio State University
2 publications, 0.05%
Queen's University at Kingston
2 publications, 0.05%
University of Minnesota Duluth
2 publications, 0.05%
Emory University
2 publications, 0.05%
Indiana University Bloomington
2 publications, 0.05%
United States National Library of Medicine
2 publications, 0.05%
Université du Québec à Montréal
2 publications, 0.05%
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
2 publications, 0.05%
University of Virginia
2 publications, 0.05%
Baruch College
2 publications, 0.05%
Ege University
1 publication, 0.03%
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1 publication, 0.03%
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
1 publication, 0.03%
Technical University of Munich
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Bern
1 publication, 0.03%
Technische Universität Dresden
1 publication, 0.03%
University of New South Wales
1 publication, 0.03%
Medical University of Vienna
1 publication, 0.03%
Durham University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.03%
Aarhus University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Edinburgh
1 publication, 0.03%
London School of Economics and Political Science
1 publication, 0.03%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 0.03%
National University of Singapore
1 publication, 0.03%
Stony Brook University
1 publication, 0.03%
Carnegie Mellon University
1 publication, 0.03%
California Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Queensland
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Tasmania
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Notre Dame Australia
1 publication, 0.03%
Stanford University
1 publication, 0.03%
Princeton University
1 publication, 0.03%
Washington University in St. Louis
1 publication, 0.03%
Virginia Tech
1 publication, 0.03%
Duke University
1 publication, 0.03%
Syracuse University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Washington
1 publication, 0.03%
Brigham and Women's Hospital
1 publication, 0.03%
Tufts University
1 publication, 0.03%
Northern Illinois University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of California, Santa Barbara
1 publication, 0.03%
Newcastle University
1 publication, 0.03%
Loyola Marymount University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Chicago
1 publication, 0.03%
Semmelweis University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of South Florida
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Bristol
1 publication, 0.03%
Vrije Universiteit Medical Center
1 publication, 0.03%
National University of General San Martín
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Buenos Aires
1 publication, 0.03%
Grand Valley State University
1 publication, 0.03%
Swansea University
1 publication, 0.03%
Boston College
1 publication, 0.03%
McMaster University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Minnesota Morris
1 publication, 0.03%
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
1 publication, 0.03%
Goethe University Frankfurt
1 publication, 0.03%
Clarkson University
1 publication, 0.03%
Brown University
1 publication, 0.03%
Cardiff University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Leeds
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1 publication, 0.03%
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
1 publication, 0.03%
East Carolina University
1 publication, 0.03%
Mie University
1 publication, 0.03%
Wrocław Medical University
1 publication, 0.03%
Mayo Clinic
1 publication, 0.03%
Widener University
1 publication, 0.03%
York University
1 publication, 0.03%
University of Alberta
1 publication, 0.03%
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Publishing organizations in 5 years

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
1 publication, 0.35%
University of Houston
1 publication, 0.35%
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Publishing countries

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USA, 130, 3.31%
USA
130 publications, 3.31%
United Kingdom, 44, 1.12%
United Kingdom
44 publications, 1.12%
Canada, 18, 0.46%
Canada
18 publications, 0.46%
Germany, 12, 0.31%
Germany
12 publications, 0.31%
Australia, 9, 0.23%
Australia
9 publications, 0.23%
France, 3, 0.08%
France
3 publications, 0.08%
Denmark, 3, 0.08%
Denmark
3 publications, 0.08%
Israel, 3, 0.08%
Israel
3 publications, 0.08%
Argentina, 2, 0.05%
Argentina
2 publications, 0.05%
Italy, 2, 0.05%
Italy
2 publications, 0.05%
Netherlands, 2, 0.05%
Netherlands
2 publications, 0.05%
China, 1, 0.03%
China
1 publication, 0.03%
Portugal, 1, 0.03%
Portugal
1 publication, 0.03%
Austria, 1, 0.03%
Austria
1 publication, 0.03%
Belgium, 1, 0.03%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.03%
Brazil, 1, 0.03%
Brazil
1 publication, 0.03%
Hungary, 1, 0.03%
Hungary
1 publication, 0.03%
Ireland, 1, 0.03%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.03%
Spain, 1, 0.03%
Spain
1 publication, 0.03%
Côte d'Ivoire, 1, 0.03%
Côte d'Ivoire
1 publication, 0.03%
Poland, 1, 0.03%
Poland
1 publication, 0.03%
Singapore, 1, 0.03%
Singapore
1 publication, 0.03%
Turkey, 1, 0.03%
Turkey
1 publication, 0.03%
Switzerland, 1, 0.03%
Switzerland
1 publication, 0.03%
Japan, 1, 0.03%
Japan
1 publication, 0.03%
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Germany, 1, 0.35%
Germany
1 publication, 0.35%
USA, 1, 0.35%
USA
1 publication, 0.35%
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