About Medical Humanities

Aims and Scope

Editors

Deborah Kirklin
University College London
London, UK
Email: d.kirklin{at}pcps.ucl.ac.uk

Editorial Office

BMJ Journals Department
BMA House, Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9JR
UK

Email: mh{at}bmjgroup.com

Frequency

Launch date

2000

ISSN Medical Humanities

1468-215X

ISSN Medical Humanities Online

1473-4265

Readership

Health care professionals, humanities and arts scholars, social scientists and policy-makers, medical educators, and patients

Print circulation

1770

Indexed by

ISI Current Contents (Web of Science), Excerpta Medica (Embase)

Impact factor

1.103

Submitting to Medical Humanities

All papers must be submitted through Bench>Press, our online submission and review system.

Medical Humanities welcomes:
Original papers (clinical and basic science)
Scientific letters
Global Issues Articles
Editorials (usually commissioned)
Reviews
Innovations Articles
Education Articles
Video reports

Medical Humanities will consider rapid review and publication for articles of outstanding interest. Supplementary data for articles and electronic correspondence are available on Medical Humanities Online. Further information is available in the Instructions to Authors and from the Editorial Office

Lead times

Time from submission to first decision: 8-10 weeks
About 24% of submissions are rejected without external peer review
Time from acceptance to publication: 6-12 months

Acceptance rate

20%

Subscriptions

Information on rates and how to subscribe

- Personal print subscribers receive access to Medical Humanities at no additional cost
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- Subscriptions can start with any issue and refunds are given upon cancellation for outstanding issues
- Non-subscribers may purchase individual articles for US$12 or access the whole site for 30 days for US$30

Rights

Authors retain copyright for their own material. However, they must provide Medical Humanities with an exclusive licence to publish .
Corresponding authors are provided with a toll-free link to their published article on Medical Humanities.

Permissions

Material may not be reproduced in full or part in any medium or language without prior permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

Please refer to our Copyright and Permission Guidelines

Authors may reproduce their own work in other publications and host on their own website or that of their institution (non-commercial only) without prior permission; we do ask that all material is clearly acknowledged with the original source and a link to the website included where possible

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COPE

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