Medical History

Medical History is published by Cambridge University Press and is in Zone 3 of Philosophy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Medical History and Innovations and Educational Robotics and Engineering, together about 29.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are History. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Medical History is a refereed journal devoted to all aspects of the history of medicine, health and related sciences, 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 associated with the Asian Society for the History of Medicine. The membership of the Editorial Board 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 the first language; language and copy-editing assistance will be provided wherever possible.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): History & Philosophy Of Science

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 4%); most named United Kingdom 17, United States 6, Portugal 3, Mainland China 2, Taiwan, China 2 (48 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIESSCIAHCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

0.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

1.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.16LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

24LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

71OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

936OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.58OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

18.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

94.51%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

46LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1957

ISSN

0025-7273

Electronic ISSN

2048-8343

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website