Discipline | Medicine |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Shraga Blazer |
Publication details | |
History | 2010-present |
Publisher | Rambam Health Care Campus (Israel) |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Yes | |
License | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
1.5 (2022) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Rambam Maimonides Med. J. |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 2076-9172 |
OCLC no. | 652437167 |
Links | |
The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is a quarterly international, peer-reviewed, Open Access medical journal sponsored by Rambam Health Care Campus covering medical research, in the spirit of Maimonides. [1] [2] The journal was established in July 2010 [3] and the editor-in-chief is Shraga Blazer.
The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal charges no submission, publication, or subscription fees [4] and is supported by donors. [5] The journal also has a no-advertisement policy. [6]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed Central, EBSCO Information Services, [7] the Emerging Sources Citation Index, [8] SCOPUS, [9] Journal Citation Reports (JCR), [10] the Directory of Open Access Journals, [11] Cabell's Scholarly Analytics, and Google Scholar. It is also a CrossRef member.
The journal has a JCR impact factor (IF) of 1.5 for 2022; and a 2022 SCOPUS CiteScore Factor of 2.6. [9] [12]
The journal has published multiple articles of interest that have been cross-posted on university websites, [13] medical societies, [14] businesses, [15] and more. The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is known in particular for publishing articles relating to ethics, [16] Jewish law and medicine, [17] [18] controversial topics of strong potential benefit to the academic and medical communities, [19] [20] [21] and the history of medicine -- particularly with regard to Judaism and Jewish contributions to medicine. [22] [23]