Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Discipline	Public health
Language	English, abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Edited  by	Laragh Gollogly
Publication details
History	1947–present
Publisher	World Health Organization
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	11.1 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Bull. World Health Organ.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
CODEN	BWHOA6
ISSN	0042-9686  (print) 1564-0604  (web)
LCCN	52004897
OCLC  no.	01588496
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The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a monthly public health journal published by the World Health Organization that was established in 1948. ^[1] Articles are published in English and abstracts are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. ^[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 11.1, ranking it 12th out of 207 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health". ^[3]

It is open access journal and uses the Creative Commons 3.0 IGO license (specifically CC BY 3.0 IGO). ^{[4] [5]}

History

The first issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization was published in 1948 under the initiative of the Interim Commission, and has been published monthly ever since. ^[6]

Abstracting and indexing

The Bulletin is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene, Biological Abstracts, Current Contents, Excerpta Medica, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Pollution Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin. ^[7]

See also

Other publications of the World Health Organization:

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
• Human Resources for Health (journal published in collaboration with BioMed Central)
• Pan American Journal of Public Health
• World Health Report
• WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health

References

1. "Bulletin/1947-1948/". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
2. "Guidelines for contributors". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
3. "Bulletin of the World Health Organization". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2023.
4. "Public health round-up". Bull World Health Organ. 92 (7): 468–469. 2014. doi:10.2471/BLT.14.010714. PMC   4121872 . PMID   25110369.
5. "WHO | Rights and Permissions". WHO. Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
6. "Bulletin of the World health Organization/About/History". World Health Organization. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
7. "Advertisement flyer" (PDF). Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization . Retrieved 7 February 2011.

External links

• Official website