Impact Factor
2.85
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
1.54
253 total citations
h5-index
19
h5 depth signal
Cited share
63.3%
105 of 166
Total citations
253
Citation footprint
Metric signal
1.56
External metric anchor
Self-citation
7.5%
19 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United Kingdom
324
United States
148
Canada
73
Australia
49
India
35
Citing Fields of Research
Literary Theory
179
History & Philosophy Of Science
148
Psychiatry & Psychology
109
Sociology
96
Patient Care
94
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
1,499
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
166
105 cited publications
Last 12 months
152
12.7 publications/month
Open access share
17.1%
26 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United Kingdom
324 citing publications
Leading citing field
Literary Theory
179 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
13 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v36n1, Jun 2010-
v36n1, Jun 2010-
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Literary Theory
Patient Care
History & Philosophy Of Science
Psychiatry & Psychology
Palliative Care
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Sociology
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
Institute of Medical Ethics (Great Britain)
Contributor
British Medical Association
Broad Categories
Ethics
History & Philosophy Of Science
Anthropology
Literary Theory
Healthcare Policy
Medical Ethics
Modern History
MeSH Descriptors
Ethics, Medical
Humanities
Medicine in Literature
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2026-013950
Open DOI
Naming and framing: how naming hospital robots risks encoding gendered hierarchies into tomorrow’s health workers
02
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2026-014199
Open DOI
Pituitary neuroendocrine tumour and strabismus in a young woman who died in 1476
03
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2025-013809
Open DOI
Narrating care and medical authority in Egyptian fiction: a medical humanities approach
This article analyses how Egyptian novels construct experiences of medicine, care and institutional authority through comparative close readings of Naguib Mahfouz’s The Day the Leader Was Killed , Youssef Ziedan’s Azazeel , Ahmed Mourad’...
04
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2026-013988
Open DOI
Entangled vessels: a practice-led enquiry on circulation, containment and connectivity through the plasma illumination of blown glass
This practice-led research article traces the development of Entangled Vessels , a series of plasma-illuminated borosilicate glass sculptures whose forms, materials and processes are entangled with circulatory metaphors drawn from both b...
05
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2026-013960
Open DOI
Abortion narratives in contemporary Denmark: the problems of normalisation
The Danish welfare state provides safe, easily accessible abortions that are free of charge, and the majority of Danes support abortion rights. For these reasons, elective abortions are generally considered a non-issue. Despite this norm...
06
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2025-013636
Open DOI
How illuminating, clarifying and contextualising shame can transform healthcare: the shame lens
Despite widespread efforts to advance the Quadruple Aim, persistent challenges continue to impede progress. One important yet largely unacknowledged contributor may be shame—a complex and deeply human emotion that can profoundly shape be...
07
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2026-014079
Open DOI
Narratives and the psychological functions of narration in French lockdown diaries
The COVID-19 pandemic was an ‘extraordinary’ situation that raised many ethical and political questions about the role of care in society, as well as the exercise of democracy in the context of major restrictions on freedoms. During the ...
08
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2026-014144
Open DOI
Gates of hardened steel: Bruce Springsteen’s Mansion on the Hill and the father-son relationship
This essay contributes to the medical humanities by using Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 song ‘Mansion on the Hill’ from his album Nebraska to interrogate the clinical aetiology of the ‘paternal void’ and generational emotional inheritance. Gr...
09
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2026-013922
Open DOI
Visiting recognition: a palimpsest model of personhood at the threshold of death
Background: At the end of life, clinical care often reduces a person to a single dimension—a past biography, a present symptom or a future decline. Existing person-centred models offer immense value but provide limited guidance for susta...
10
DOI 10.1136/medhum-2025-013682
Open DOI
Looking back to look ahead: a BERTopic-assisted scoping review of Medical Humanities (2000–2025)
This study provides a scoping review of the periodical BMJ Medical Humanities in order to identify thematic changes evident in the journal between 2000 to 2025. Metadata for the review, including abstracts, publication years, authors and...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Online version called also: MH online.
Title from cover.
Also issued online.
Published on behalf of the Institute of Medical Ethics and the British Medical Association.
Split off from Journal of medical ethics and assumed its vol. numbering.