Milbank Quarterly

Milbank Quarterly  
Former names
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
Milbank Q.
Discipline Health policy
Language English
Edited by Howard Markel
Publication details
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund (United States)
Publication history
1923-present
Frequency Quarterly
5.620
Indexing
ISSN 0887-378X (print)
1468-0009 (web)
LCCN 86643667
CODEN MIQUES
OCLC no. 34945088
JSTOR 0887378X
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The Milbank Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care policy. It was established in 1923 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed national foundation funded by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson that supports research of issues related to health policy.[1] It covers topics such as the impact of social factors on health, prevention, allocation of health care resources, legal and ethical issues in health policy, health and health care administration, and the organization and financing of health care.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by:[2]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 5.620, ranking it first out of 76 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services"[3] and first out of 62 journals in the category "Health Policy & Services".[4]

Previous titles

The journal was established in 1923 as The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin. In 1934 it was renamed The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, and in 1973 The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society. It obtained its current name in 1986.

References

  1. "The Milbank Memorial Fund". Retrieved 2009-02-08.
  2. "The Milbank Quarterly: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Population Health and Health Policy - Journal Information". Retrieved 2009-02-08.
  3. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Health Care Sciences & Services". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.
  4. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Health Policy & Services". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.
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