Bulletin of the World Health Organization


The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a monthly public health journal published by the World Health Organization that was established in 1947. Articles are published in English and abstracts are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
It is open access journal and uses the Creative Commons 3.0 IGO license.

Abstracting and indexing

The Bulletin is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene, Biological Abstracts, Current Contents, Excerpta Medica, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Pollution Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 6.818, ranking it 7th out of 185 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".