| Discipline | Medicine |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Nicola Maffulli |
| Publication details | |
| History | Since 1943 |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 5.4 (2024) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Br. Med. Bull. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | BMBUAQ |
| ISSN | 0007-1420 (print) 1471-8391 (web) |
| OCLC no. | 855519 |
| Links | |
TheBritish Medical Bulletin is a quarterlypeer-reviewedmedical journal that publishesreview articles on a wide variety of medical subjects.[1] The journal was established in 1943 and is published byOxford University Press. Theeditor-in-chief is Nicola Maffulli (Queen Mary University of London). According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024impact factor of 5.4.[2] The journal focuses on authoritative, invited reviews that interpret “growing points” in medicine and help clinicians incorporate both new evidence and new conceptual approaches into practice. The journal does not accept unsolicited submissions and all its published reviews are commissioned by theeditorial board.[1]
As of November 2025[update], the journal's website listed the following most-read articles:[1]
The journal was conceived in 1940 through collaboration between theBritish Medical Journal and theMinistry of Information, and it grew from the British Medical Information Service, which had been set up to counter wartime misinformation about British medicine and science.[3] It began in 1943, created by theBritish Council from an earlier wartime project to share British medical research with other countries. From the mid-1940s onwards, each issue increasingly focused on a single theme, with specially commissioned review articles by authoritative experts. The journal has an extensive online archive stretching back to its inaugural 1943 issue.