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BMC Public Health

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Overview

BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing research in all aspects of public health, including the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community.

  • Committed to advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, by considering research focused on health and well-being, education, gender equality, clean environments, poverty reduction and social justice among others
  • Welcomes submissions that enhance understanding across a wide spectrum of global health challenges
Lead Editors
  • Natalie Pafitis,
  • Lorena Verduci,
  • Chris Booker,
  • Zhijia Sun

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
3.6 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
4.2 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
7 days
Downloads
29.1M (2024)

Calls for papers

Collection

The health benefits of plant-based diets

BMC Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on The health benefits of plant-based diets.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
16 September 2026

Collection

HIV stigma

BMC Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on HIV stigma, which remains a critical barrier to achieving optimal health outcomes...

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
03 September 2026
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Journal updates

  • Join our Editorial Board

    BMC Public Health is recruiting Editorial Board Members.  As the growth of the journal continues, we must also ensure that it is able to cope with increased submissions whilst maintaining our high editorial standards.


    We are interested in individuals who are committed to open access, data sharing and innovation in scientific publishing.

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1471-2458
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. ANVUR
  2. BFI List
  3. Baidu
  4. CAB Abstracts
  5. CLOCKSS
  6. CNKI
  7. CNPIEC
  8. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  9. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  10. DOAJ
  11. Dimensions
  12. EBSCO
  13. EMCare
  14. Gale
  15. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  16. Google Scholar
  17. IFIS Publishing
  18. INIS Atomindex
  19. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  20. Medline
  21. Naver
  22. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  23. Portico
  24. ProQuest
  25. PubMedCentral
  26. SCImago
  27. SCOPUS
  28. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  29. Semantic Scholar
  30. TD Net Discovery Service
  31. Wanfang
  32. eLibrary.ru
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