BMJ Quality & Safety

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Journal Title

BMJ QUAL SAF

ISSN / eISSN

2044-5415 / 2044-5423

Aims and Scope

BMJ Quality & Safety (previously Quality & Safety in Health Care) is an international peer review publication providing research, opinions, debates and reviews for academics, clinicians and healthcare managers focused on the quality and safety of health care and the science of improvement.

The journal receives approximately 1000 manuscripts a year and has an acceptance rate for original research of 12%. Time from submission to first decision averages 22 days and accepted articles are typically published online within 20 days. Its current impact factor is 3.281.

Subject Area

HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES

CiteScore

10.20

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CiteScore Ranking

Category	Quartile	Rank
Medicine - Health Policy	Q1	#10/270

Web of Science Core Collection

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)	Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Indexed	Indexed

Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023)	Quartile
HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES - SCIE	Q1
HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES - SSCI	Q1

H-index

126

Country/Area of Publication

ENGLAND

Publisher

BMJ Publishing Group

Year Publication Started

2011

Annual Article Volume

Open Access

Contact

BRITISH MED ASSOC HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, ENGLAND, WC1H 9JR

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