Impact Factor
2.09
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
0.90
60 total citations
h5-index
9
h5 depth signal
Cited share
38.8%
26 of 67
Total citations
60
Citation footprint
Metric signal
0.51
External metric anchor
Self-citation
5.0%
3 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United Kingdom
160
United States
98
Australia
24
Germany
24
Canada
24
Citing Fields of Research
History & Philosophy Of Science
287
Modern History
164
Contemporary History
147
History Of Medicine
119
Medieval & Early Modern History
119
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
8,370
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
67
26 cited publications
Last 12 months
52
4.3 publications/month
Open access share
88.5%
46 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United Kingdom
160 citing publications
Leading citing field
History & Philosophy Of Science
287 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
16 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v9n4,Oct. 1965-
v1, 1957-
Active Coverage
Active Coverage
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
History & Philosophy Of Science
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
British Society for the History of Medicine
Contributor
Cambridge University History of Medicine Society
Contributor
Norsk medisinsk-historisk forening
Contributor
Osler Club of London
Contributor
Scottish Society of the History of Medicine
Contributor
Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Contributor
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Broad Categories
History of Medicine
History & Philosophy Of Science
MeSH Descriptors
History of Medicine
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
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DOI 10.1017/mdh.2026.10089
Open DOI
‘Bringing natural behaviour into the laboratory’: international networks, aggression research, and Czechoslovak psychopharmacology in the 1970s
This article explores the development of ethological research on aggression in late socialist Czechoslovakia, focusing on the work of pharmacologist Miloslav Kršiak (1939–2016) at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Drawing on archival...
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DOI 10.1017/mdh.2026.10078
Open DOI
The end of cataract couching: controversies around the decline, resurgence, and demise of a surgical practice in early modern and modern France
This article examines the controversies around the surgical treatment of cataract in France during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By analysing the various phases that led to the abandonment of the traditional technique of couch...
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DOI 10.1017/mdh.2026.10090
Open DOI
Beyond reasonable doubt: antidepressants and the limits of scientific critique
Public doubt about the usefulness of antidepressants appears to have grown, even as scientific agreement about their efficacy has become more settled. This paper examines the role that figures associated with critical psychiatry have had...
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DOI 10.1017/mdh.2026.10094
Open DOI
Improvised care: Jewish refugee medicine and public health in wartime Shanghai, 1938–1945
Between 1938 and 1941, nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution arrived in wartime Shanghai, a city already destabilized by the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), mass displacement, and fragmented governance. Their arrival expo...
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DOI 10.1017/mdh.2026.10092
Open DOI
‘A Voice from the Workhouse’: contesting medical care in Victorian New Poor Law workhouses
Recent years have seen a renewed emphasis on the everyday experiences of paupers, expressed through their letters of application for relief and complaints with regard to their indoor treatment. This article uses a variety of poor law sou...
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DOI 10.1017/mdh.2026.10086
Open DOI
‘Building the atomic clinic’: nuclear research in medicine after the Second World War – an introduction
This introduction to the special issue re-examines the emergence of nuclear medicine within a global and transdisciplinary framework. Moving beyond canonical narratives centred on technical breakthroughs and early U.S. developments, it h...
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DOI 10.1017/mdh.2026.10097
Open DOI
Huang Tianjiao, Nahan yu Fanghuang: Wanqing Minguo Nüyizhe Tanli 呐喊與彷徨: 晚清民國女醫者探驪 (Beijing: Zhongguo Kexue Jishu Chubanshe 中國科學技術出版社, Jan. 2026), pp.394, RMB 88, Paperback, ISBN 978-7-5236-1786-1.
Huang Tianjiao, Nahan yu Fanghuang: Wanqing Minguo Nüyizhe Tanli 呐喊與彷徨: 晚清民國女醫者探驪 (Beijing: Zhongguo Kexue Jishu Chubanshe 中國科學技術出版社, Jan. 2026), pp.394, RMB 88, Paperback, ISBN 978-7-5236-1786-1.
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DOI 10.1017/mdh.2026.10096
Open DOI
The medical topography of empire: climate, health and J. A. B. Horton’s counter data strategies in British West Africa
During the nineteenth century, a notable number of African physicians studied in British medical schools and then served as military surgeons across British West Africa. Despite their importance, the views of this distinguished group abo...
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Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Vols. for 1972- include: Scottish Society of the History of Medicine. Report of proceedings, 1970/71- .
Also issued online.
Official organ of the Cambridge University History of Medicine Society, the Norwegian Society for the History of Medicine, the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, the Osler Club of London, and other similar organizations, 1957-65; of the British Society for the History of medicine, 1966-73.
Vols. for 1966-Apr. 1969 published by the Wellcome Historical Medical Library; June 1969-1973 by the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine; 1974- by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1957)-Will not microfilm; 20040413
Vol. 36, no. 1 (1992)19920825 Notice not published Printed on acid-free paper