Journal profile

BMJ health & care informatics

Publisher: BMJ Publishing
ISSN2632-1009 FormatOnline StatusCurrently indexed

Journal Citation Impact

Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.

Impact Factor
4.25
Citation rate 8.48 1,074 total citations
h5-index 43 h5 depth signal
Cited share 84.7% 111 of 131
Total citations 1,074 Citation footprint
Metric signal 7.08 External metric anchor
Self-citation 1.8% 19 self-citations

Citations Trend

Monthly Publications Cadence

Citing Geographic Demographics

United Kingdom 203
United States 168
Australia 69
China 59
Canada 35

Citing Fields of Research

Patient Care 246
Health Education & Remote Healthcare 223
AI & Machine Learning 153
Medical Ethics 116
Healthcare Policy 44

Publishing Activity & Reach

Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.

All-time article footprint 604 Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set 131 111 cited publications
Last 12 months 119 9.9 publications/month
Open access share 100.0% 119 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country United Kingdom 203 citing publications
Leading citing field Patient Care 246 citing publications
Latest tracked publication 13 October 2026 10 recent records available

Coverage & Indexing History

MEDLINE
v26n1, Apr. 2019-
PubMed
v26n1, Apr. 2019-
PMC
Active Coverage

Research Focus & Classification

Indexed Subjects

Patient Care AI & Machine Learning Health Education & Remote Healthcare Medical Ethics

Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies

issuing body
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Broad Categories

Medical Informatics Public Health Patient Care Medical Ethics Health Education & Remote Healthcare Respiratory Support Virology

MeSH Descriptors

Medical Informatics

Latest Publications

Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.

04
Prashant Garg, Thiemo Fetzer
Objectives Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for health advice, but evidence on how performance varies across languages, topics and sources remains limited. We assess linguistic and contextual variation in Artificial Int...
08
Chiara Barbati, Virginia Casigliani, Caterina Rizzo et al.
Patients are increasingly turning to large language models for health information, which makes the consistency of these systems’ outputs across patient groups a public health concern. Demographic bias is harder to see than fabrication be...
09
Imogen E Leaning, Andrea Costanzo, Raj Jagesar et al.
Objectives: Smartphone-based digital phenotyping can provide low-burden behavioural measures for mental disorder monitoring. However, progress in making inferences from these data is challenged by the common occurrence of missing data. W...

Bibliographical & Catalog Notes

Articles published as they become available and compiled into issues.

Official publication of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.