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]
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| Discipline | Public health |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Links | |
It is open access journal and uses the Creative Commons 3.0 IGO license (specifically CC BY 3.0 IGO).[4][5]
History
editThe 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
editThe 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
editOther 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
edit- ^ "Bulletin/1947-1948/". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ "Guidelines for contributors". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ "Bulletin of the World Health Organization". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2023.
- ^ "Public health round-up". Bull World Health Organ. 92 (7): 468–469. 2014. doi:10.2471/BLT.14.010714. PMC 4121872. PMID 25110369.
- ^ "WHO | Rights and Permissions". WHO. Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Bulletin of the World health Organization/About/History". World Health Organization. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ "Advertisement flyer" (PDF). Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 February 2011.