BMC Womens Health

BMC Womens Health is published by BioMed Central and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Maternal and Child Health, Cervical Cancer and HPV Research and Reproductive Health and Contraception, together about 21.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

BMC Women's Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the health and wellbeing of adolescent girls and women, with a particular focus on the physical, mental, and emotional health of women in developed and developing nations. The journal welcomes submissions on women's public health issues, health behaviours, breast cancer, gynecological diseases, mental health and health promotion. BMC Women’s Health welcomes submissions in the following broad areas of research: Female physical health including studies on a range of physical wellness topics to guarantee healthy body parts, appropriate sensing, vision, and equilibrium, as well as the proper functioning of organs and various body systems, such as digestive and nervous systems. Bone Health including studies on osteoporosis and poor bone density in younger and older women, as well as bone fragility under various physiological settings, such as at pregnancy, inactivity, low body weight, or as a result of underlying medical illnesses or medications. Female Mental health encouraging studies on mental well-being that employ pharmacogenetic or epidemiological approaches, among others, to identify the causes of stress, anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide, enhance well-being, and prevent the onset or exacerbation of mental health disorders. Cancer in women including cancers of the pancreas, colon, lung, and breast, as well as gynecologic cancers (cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar). Research on various aspects of these diseases is welcome. Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health including studies on contraception, fertility and infertility care, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) prevention and treatment, and protection against sexual and gender-based violence. Precision medicine in women including studies on multiple-omics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the diagnosis, modeling, and targeted therapeutics of women's medical conditions. Autoimmune diseases including studies on fundamental causes of immune system impairments that inadvertently harm rather than defend your body, therapeutic approaches to manage autoimmune disease symptoms, and specific treatments. As a BMC Series journal, BMC Women’s Health does not make editorial decisions based on the perceived interest or potential impact of a study. Manuscripts are considered for publication if they are scientifically valid. For research articles, this includes having a cl

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIESSCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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MEDLINEEmbaseCASCAB AbstractsPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor

3.32LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.02LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.45LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

40LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

107OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,469OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.64OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

675LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

2,025Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

5,700,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

5 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 24 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Open peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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Publisher

BioMed Central

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Founded

2001

ISSN

1472-6874

Official links

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• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
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