Medical Humanities

Aims & Scope

Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large.

Led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics.

These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	1.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.477

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	37

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12043

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	350

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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

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Medicine, 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 Participatory Zeitgeist: an explanatory theoretical model of change in an era of coproduction and codesign in healthcare improvement

  Citation: 251

  Authors: Victoria Jane, Wayne, Rosemary, Donella, Lauralie, Lynne, Hilary, Helen, John, Jane, Rick, Glenn

• The limits of narrative: provocations for the medical humanities

  Citation: 151

  Authors: Angela

• Critical medical humanities: embracing entanglement, taking risks

  Citation: 141

  Authors: William, Felicity, Angela

• Self and narrative in schizophrenia: time to author a new story

  Citation: 140

  Authors: D, L

• Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes

  Citation: 127

  Authors: Lynne, Robert

• Graphic medicine: comics as medical narrative

  Citation: 120

  Authors: Ian C M

• Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing and wholeness: exploring some elusive concepts

  Citation: 111

  Authors: Kenneth M

• The humanities in medical education: context, outcomes and structures: Figure 1

  Citation: 106

  Authors: Jane

• Health-related shame: an affective determinant of health?

  Citation: 103

  Authors: Luna, Barry

• A systematic review and thematic analysis of cinema in medical education

  Citation: 82

  Authors: Daniel, Paul

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