Milbank Quarterly


The Milbank Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care policy. It was established in 1923 and is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed national foundation funded by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson that supports research of issues related to population health and health policy. It covers topics such as the impact of social factors on health, prevention, allocation of health care resources, legal and ethical issues in health policy, health and health care administration, and the organization and financing of health care.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 4.897, ranking it seventh out of 89 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services" and third out of 77 journals in the category "Health Policy & Services".

Previous titles

The journal was established in 1923 as The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin. In 1934 it was renamed The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, and in 1973 The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society. It obtained its current name in 1986.