About the Journal
Started in 1946, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is internationally recognized as one of the top publications in its field. The journal's coverage is broad, publishing the latest original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. When possible and appropriate, it focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, received and interpreted their efforts.
Subscribers include clinicians and hospital libraries, as well as academic and public historians.
The Journal is ranked 4/28 in the History and Philosophy of Science category of the ISI Social Science journals Citation reports 2006 with an impact factor of 0.897.
Abstracting and Indexing Services
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services:
ABC CLIO: America: History and Life
ABC CLIO: Historical Abstracts
BIOSIS
ISI: Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
MEDLINE/Pubmed
Periodicals Contents Index
Proquest
Sociological Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts
ISI Science Citation Index