The ''Chinese Medical Journal'' is an official publication of the
Chinese Medical Association
In China, the practice of medicine is a mixture of government, charitable, and private institutions, while many people rely on traditional medicine. Until reforms in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, physicians were quasi-governm ...
, co-published by Chinese Medical Association Publishing House and
Wolters Kluwer Medknow. The journal publishes peer-reviewed English-language articles, covering technical and clinical studies related to health, as well as ethical and social issues in medical research.
History
The China Medical Missionary Association was established in Shanghai in 1887. It started publishing ''The China Medical Missionary Journal'' the following year. The association was renamed later as the Chinese Medical Association and in 1932 merged into the National Medical Association of China. The ''China Medical Missionary Journal'' then merged into the English part of the ''National Medical Journal of China'' to become the ''Chinese Medical Journal''.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collect ...
'', the journal has a 2011
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ...
of 0.864.
Its 2013 Impact Factor is 1.016.
References
External links
*{{Official, http://www.cmj.org/
Chinese Medical Association
General medical journals
Biweekly journals
Publications established in 1887
English-language journals
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies
Medknow Publications academic journals