Medicine (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins journal)

For the medical review journal established in 1972 now published by Elsevier, see Medicine (Elsevier journal).

Medicine

Discipline	Medicine
Language	English
Publication details
History	1922–present
Publisher	Wolters Kluwer
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.889 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Medicine (Baltimore)
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
CODEN	MEDIAV
ISSN	0025-7974  (print) 1536-5964  (web)
LCCN	32003850
OCLC  no.	807498951
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Medicine is an open access peer-reviewed medical journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ^[1] an imprint of Wolters Kluwer. It was established in 1922. Of general medical journals still in publication since 1959, Medicine had the highest number of citations per paper between 1959 and 2009. ^[2] The journal covers all aspects of clinical medicine and publishes in over 43 specialty subjects.

Medicine is now a fully open access mega journal publication, publishing original research across a broad spectrum of medical scientific disciplines and sub–specialties. ^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: ^{[4] [5]}

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
• Science Citation Index
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
• Current Contents/Life Sciences
• BIOSIS Previews

2025 retractions

In 2025, a team of Iraqi researchers published a paper in the journal describing an asymptomatic case of Ectopia cordis interna . A private inquiry later indicated that the report had been based on a 2015 hoax. ^[6] The journal eventually retracted the article, ^[7] and 5 others articles by the same authors. ^{[8] [9]}

References

1. Wolters Kluwer
2. Ioannidis, John P. A.; Belbasis, Lazaros; Evangelou, Evangelos (2010). "Fifty-Year Fate and Impact of General Medical Journals". PLOS ONE. 5 (9) e12531. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...512531I. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012531 . PMC   2931710 . PMID   20824146.
3. "Medicine is Changing: Medicine". journals.lww.com. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
4. "Medicine". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2013-11-03.
5. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters . Retrieved 2013-11-03.
6. Orrall, Avery (2025-08-15). "'Tin Man Syndrome' case plagiarized from hoax, sleuths say". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2025-09-09.
7. Hashim, Hashim Talib; Ghuraibawi, Mohammedbaqer; Sulaiman, Fatimah Abdullah; Al-Aboudi, Batool S.; Lateef, Zainab Ahmed; Basalilah, Ashraf Fhed Mohammed; Shalan, Bashar Hadi (2025-07-25). "Asymptomatic young male with ectopia cordis interna: A rare case report [RETRACTED]". Medicine. 104 (30) e43626. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). doi: 10.1097/md.0000000000043626 . ISSN   1536-5964. PMC   12303436 .
8. Watch, Retraction. "Tin Man Syndrome Paper Retracted, Author Admits to Fake Report". The Scientist. Retrieved 2025-09-09.
9. "Episode #1052 | The Skeptics Guide to the Universe". 2025-09-06. Retrieved 2025-09-09.

External links

• Official website