Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Academic journal

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Discipline| Public health
Language| English, abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Edited by| Laragh Gollogly
Publication details
History| 1947–present
Publisher|

World Health Organization

Frequency| Monthly

Open access

| Yes

Impact factor

| 11.1 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Bull. World Health Organ.
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus * W&L
CODEN| BWHOA6
ISSN| 0042-9686 (print)
1564-0604 (web)

LCCN| 52004897
OCLC no.| 01588496
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access
* Online archive
* Online archive

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]

## History

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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]

## Abstracting and indexing

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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]

## See also

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Other publications of the World Health Organization:

* Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
* Human Resources for Health (journal published in collaboration with BioMed Central)
* Pan American Journal of Public Health
* World Health Report
* WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health

## References

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1. ^ "Bulletin/1947-1948/". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
2. ^ "Guidelines for contributors". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
3. ^ "Bulletin of the World Health Organization". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2023.
4. ^ "Public health round-up". Bull World Health Organ. 92 (7): 468–469\. 2014. doi:10.2471/BLT.14.010714. PMC 4121872. PMID 25110369.
5. ^ "WHO | Rights and Permissions". WHO. Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
6. ^ "Bulletin of the World health Organization/About/History". World Health Organization. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
7. ^ "Advertisement flyer" (PDF). Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 February 2011.

## External links

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* Official website