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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

Monitoring, preventing, and managing type 2 diabetes

BMC Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Monitoring, preventing, and managing diabetes at the population level.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
16 July 2026

Collection

Cancer in older adolescents and young adults

BMC Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Cancer in older adolescents and young adults.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
26 June 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
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  4. CAB Abstracts
  5. CLOCKSS
  6. CNKI
  7. CNPIEC
  8. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  9. DOAJ
  10. Dimensions
  11. EBSCO
  12. EMCare
  13. Gale
  14. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  15. Google Scholar
  16. IFIS Publishing
  17. INIS Atomindex
  18. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  19. Medline
  20. Naver
  21. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  22. Portico
  23. ProQuest
  24. PubMedCentral
  25. SCImago
  26. SCOPUS
  27. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  28. Semantic Scholar
  29. TD Net Discovery Service
  30. Wanfang
  31. eLibrary.ru

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