The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a monthly public health journal published by the World Health Organization that was established in 1948.[1] Articles are published in English and abstracts are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 11.1, ranking it 12th out of 207 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".[3]
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| Discipline | Public health |
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| Language | English, abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish |
| Edited by | Laragh Gollogly |
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| History | 1947–present |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
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| 11.1 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Bull. World Health Organ. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
| CODEN | BWHOA6 |
| ISSN | 0042-9686 (print) 1564-0604 (web) |
| LCCN | 52004897 |
| OCLC no. | 01588496 |
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It is open access journal and uses the Creative Commons 3.0 IGO license (specifically CC BY 3.0 IGO).[4][5]
The first issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization was published in 1948 under the initiative of the Interim Commission, and has been published monthly ever since. [6]
The Bulletin is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene, Biological Abstracts, Current Contents, Excerpta Medica, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Pollution Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin.[7]
Other publications of the World Health Organization: