Bulletin of the World Health Organization | |
Cover: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization (journal) cover – February 2011.jpg |
Editor: | Laragh Gollogly |
Discipline: | Public health |
Language: | English, abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish |
Abbreviation: | Bull. World Health Organ. |
Publisher: | World Health Organization |
Frequency: | Monthly |
History: | 1947–present |
Openaccess: | Yes |
Impact: | 11.1 |
Impact-Year: | 2022 |
Website: | https://www.who.int/bulletin/en/index.html |
Link1: | https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/en/ |
Link1-Name: | Online access |
Link2: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/522/ |
Link2-Name: | Online archive |
Link3: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0042-9686&lng=en&nrm=iso |
Link3-Name: | Online archive |
Oclc: | 01588496 |
Lccn: | 52004897 |
Coden: | BWHOA6 |
Issn: | 0042-9686 |
Eissn: | 1564-0604 |
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]
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]
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]
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