| Discipline | Medicine |
|---|---|
| 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.[ as of? ]
The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal charges no submission, publication, or subscription fees, [4] and it 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, Google Scholar, and Crossref. [12]
The journal had a JCR impact factor (IF) of 1.5 for 2022 and a 2022 Scopus of 2.6. [9] [13] The journal has published multiple articles of interest that have been cross-posted on university websites, [14] medical societies, [15] businesses, [16] and more. The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is known in particular for publishing articles relating to Jewish ethics, [17] Jewish law ( Halakha ) and medicine, [18] [19] controversial topics of strong potential benefit to the academic and medical communities, [20] [21] [22] and the history of medicine—particularly with regard to Judaism and Jewish contributions to medicine. [23] [24]
