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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Publishing model:
Open access

Overview

Publish groundbreaking research in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, with 2.8 Impact Factor and 19 days to first decision.

With a large and dedicated global readership and a section focusing on research in low and middle income countries, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is a well-established open-access journal welcoming research on the biomedical aspects of pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor, maternal health, maternity care, fetal medicine, trends, and sociological aspects of pregnancy and childbirth. This journal is part of the BMC series, a collection of journals that are focused on individual research communities, publishing all scientifically valid studies based on community-aligned standards of questioning, methods and analysis.

  • Topics include pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor, maternal health, maternity care, and more
  • Offers a section dedicated to research in low and middle income countries
  • High visibility for your work with open access
  • Indexed in PubMed, Web of Science (SCIE), Scopus, DOAJ and more
Lead Editor
  • Asiyah Franklin

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
2.7 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.3 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
12 days
Downloads
11.4M (2025)

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1471-2393
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. Baidu
  3. CAB Abstracts
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  8. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  9. DOAJ
  10. Dimensions
  11. EBSCO
  12. EMBASE
  13. EMCare
  14. Gale
  15. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  16. Google Scholar
  17. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  18. Medline
  19. Naver
  20. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  21. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  22. Ovid Discovery
  23. Portico
  24. ProQuest
  25. PubMedCentral
  26. Reaxys
  27. SCImago
  28. SCOPUS
  29. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  30. Semantic Scholar
  31. TD Net Discovery Service
  32. Wanfang
  33. eLibrary.ru
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