Discipline | Public health |
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Language | English, abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish |
Edited by | Laragh Gollogly |
Publication details | |
History | 1947–present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | Monthly |
Yes | |
11.1 (2022) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Bull. World Health Organ. |
Indexing | |
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]
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]
Other publications of the World Health Organization: