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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

BioMed Central Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1890

ISSN1472-6947eISSN1472-6947

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.224

H-Indexi

142

SNIPi

1.461

Total Worksi

4,281

Total Citationsi

140,966

2yr Mean Citednessi

5.39

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medical Informatics; Computer Science Applications; Health Informatics; Health Policy.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1890

Annual Volume~ 408 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications4,281

Publisher OrgBioMed Central

OA Since2000

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewOpen

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

LOCKSSPMC

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

BioMed Central Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1472-6947 / 1472-6947

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Open

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

LOCKSS, PMC

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

290

13k

2019

345

14k

2020

380

12k

2021

348

7.5k

2022

302

7.1k

2023

424

5.3k

2024

497

3.3k

2025

443

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Computer Science ApplicationsQ1

Health InformaticsQ1

Health PolicyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medical Informatics

Scopus Categories

Computer Science ApplicationsHealth InformaticsHealth Policy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Electronic Health Records SystemsMachine Learning in HealthcareMobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsBiomedical Text Mining and OntologiesPatient-Provider Communication in HealthcareArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationSepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentTopic ModelingArtificial Intelligence in HealthcareHealth Literacy and Information Accessibility

Frequently asked questions about BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Is BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making?

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 5.39.

Is BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making?