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Family Medicine and Community Health

BMJ Publishing Group · Ireland · Est. 2004

ISSN2009-8774

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

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 · Scopus CiteScore 9.6. 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

1.149

H-Indexi

CiteScorei

9.6

SNIPi

1.211

Total Worksi

547

Total Citationsi

8,588

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.35

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Family Medicine and Community Health is an open access journal focusing on the topics of family medicine, general practice and community health. FMCH strives to be a leading international journal that promotes 'Health Care for All' through disseminating novel knowledge and best practices in primary care, family medicine, and community health. FMCH publishes original research, review, methodology, commentary, reflection, and case-study from the lens of population health. FMCH's Asian Focus section features reports of family medicine development in the Asia-pacific region. FMCH aims to serve a diverse audience including researchers, educators, policymakers and leaders of family medicine and community health. We also aim to provide content relevant for researchers working on population health, epidemiology, public policy, disease control and management, preventative medicine and disease burden.

General Information

Country / RegionIreland

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2004

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications547

Publisher OrgBMJ

OA Since2012

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC, CC 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

Portico

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

BMJ Publishing Group

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2009-8774

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

Portico

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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

2.8k

2019

3.2k

2020

792

2021

535

2022

476

2023

294

2024

116

2025

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.

Family PracticeQ1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Primary Health Care

Scopus Categories

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthFamily Practice

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Primary Care and Health OutcomesChronic Disease Management StrategiesHealthcare Systems and ReformsGlobal Maternal and Child HealthInnovations in Medical EducationHealthcare Policy and ManagementHealth Policy Implementation ScienceDiabetes Management and EducationGlobal Health Workforce IssuesGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening

Frequently asked questions about Family Medicine and Community Health

Is Family Medicine and Community Health a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Family Medicine and Community Health: 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 Family Medicine and Community Health?

Family Medicine and Community Health 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. As an open alternative, its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6.

Is Family Medicine and Community Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Family Medicine and Community Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.