Medical History

Aims & Scope

Medical History is a refereed journal devoted to all aspects of the history of medicine and health, with the goal of broadening and deepening the understanding of the field, in the widest sense, by historical studies of the highest quality.

It is also the journal of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.

The membership of the Editorial Board, which includes senior members of the EAHMH, reflects the commitment to the finest international standards in refereeing of submitted papers and the reviewing of books.

The journal publishes in English, but welcomes submissions from scholars for whom English is not a first language; language and copy-editing assistance will be provided wherever possible.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.1
2024	0.90

h-index

Year	Value
2024	37

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	17777

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	49

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.269

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline
• PubMed

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Medicine and Nursing, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The politics of prevention: Anti-vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England

  Citation: 111

  Authors: Dorothy, Roy

• Translation and analysis of a cuneiform text forming part of a Babylonian treatise on epilepsy

  Citation: 110

  Authors: J V Kinnier, E H

• Lead Poisoning in the Ancient World

  Citation: 104

  Authors: H. A.

• The seeds of disease: An explanation of contagion and infection from the Greeks to the Renaissance

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Vivian

• The History of Sutures

  Citation: 98

  Authors: David

• 4 Epidemiology of the Black Death and Successive Waves of Plague

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Samuel K

• The Spread of Malaria to Southern Europe in Antiquity: New Approaches to Old Problems

  Citation: 93

  Authors: Robert, Abigail, Cecilia

• What Tuberculosis did for Modernism: The Influence of a Curative Environment on Modernist Design and Architecture

  Citation: 92

  Authors: Margaret

• Tuberculosis and leprosy in antiquity: an interpretation

  Citation: 81

  Authors: Keith

• The Lancet on the telephone 1876–1975

  Citation: 78

  Authors: Sidney H

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