Birth (journal)

Birth

Discipline	Nursing, obstetrics and gynecology
Language	English
Edited by	Melissa Cheyney
Publication details
Former name(s)	Birth and the Family Journal
History	1973-present
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	3.689 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Birth
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0730-7659 (print) 1523-536X (web)
LCCN	82642864
OCLC no.	900950990
Links
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Birth is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on childbirth and related topics. It was established in 1973 as Birth and the Family Journal, with as its founding editor-in-chief Madeleine H. Shearer,[1] obtaining its current name in 1982.[2] It is published by John Wiley & Sons and the editor-in-chief is Melissa Cheyney.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:[3]

• CAB Abstracts
• CINAHL
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
• EBSCO databases
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed[2]
• ProQuest databases
• PsycINFO
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.689.[4]

References

1. Shearer, Madeleine H. (December 1973). "Editorial". Birth. 1 (1): 2. doi:10.1111/j.1523-536X.1973.tb00652.x.
2. "Birth". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
3. "Birth". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
4. "Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science/Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2021.

External links

• Official website