Bulletin of the World Health Organization

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{{Infobox journal

| title = Bulletin of the World Health Organization

| cover = Bulletin of the World Health Organization (journal) cover – February 2011.jpg

| editor = Laragh Gollogly

| discipline = Public health

| language = English, abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

| former_names =

| abbreviation = Bull. World Health Organ.

| publisher = World Health Organization

| country =

| frequency = Monthly

| history = 1947–present

| openaccess = Yes

| license =

| impact = 11.1

| impact-year = 2022

| website =https://www.who.int/bulletin/en/index.html

| link1 =https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/en/

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/522/

| link2-name = Online archive

| link3 = http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0042-9686&lng=en&nrm=iso

| link3-name = Online archive

| JSTOR =

| OCLC = 01588496

| LCCN = 52004897

| CODEN = BWHOA6

| ISSN = 0042-9686

| eISSN = 1564-0604

}}

The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a monthly public health journal published by the World Health Organization that was established in 1948.{{cite web |url=http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1947-1948/ |title=Bulletin/1947-1948/ |publisher=World Health Organization |work=Bulletin of the World Health Organization |accessdate=2011-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106064539/http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1947-1948/ |archive-date=6 January 2011 |url-status=dead }} Articles are published in English and abstracts are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/1/11-000011/en/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111040817/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/1/11-000011/en/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 January 2011 |title=Guidelines for contributors |publisher=World Health Organization |work=Bulletin of the World Health Organization |accessdate=2011-02-07}} 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".{{cite book |year=2023 |chapter=Bulletin of the World Health Organization |title=2022 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |edition=Science |series=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}

It is open access journal and uses the Creative Commons 3.0 IGO license (specifically CC BY 3.0 IGO).{{cite journal|title=Public health round-up|journal=Bull World Health Organ|date=2014|volume=92|issue=7|pages=468–469|doi=10.2471/BLT.14.010714|pmid=25110369|pmc=4121872}}{{cite web |title=WHO {{!}} Rights and Permissions |url=https://www.who.int/bulletin/about/rights_and_permissions/en/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419092714/http://www.who.int/bulletin/about/rights_and_permissions/en/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 April 2017 |website=WHO |accessdate=20 July 2019}}

History

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.{{cite web |title=Bulletin of the World health Organization/About/History |url=https://www.who.int/publications/journals/bulletin/about/history |website=World Health Organization |access-date=December 13, 2023}}

Abstracting and indexing

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/order/Bulletinflyer2008.pdf |title=Advertisement flyer |publisher=World Health Organization |work=Bulletin of the World Health Organization |accessdate=2011-02-07}}

See also

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