
The Journal of General Internal Medicine is the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine. It promotes improved patient care, research, and education in primary care, general internal medicine, and hospital medicine. Its articles focus on topics such as clinical medicine, epidemiology, prevention, health care delivery, curriculum development, and numerous other non-traditional themes, in addition to classic clinical research on problems in internal medicine.
JGIM is ranked #1 in the Google Scholar H-5 Index of Primary Health Care, with a 2019 H-5 Index of 57.
Why publish with us
- We are the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine, received by all Society members and ranked #1 in the Google Scholar H-5 Index of Primary Health Care.
- Highly accessible through SpringerLink, we publish to a broad audience, recording approximately 1.5 million article downloads each year.
- The journal publishes practice-based evidence to support evidence-based practice, in internal medicine, primary care and hospital medicine.
- With our rigorous and swift peer review process, the journal is highly rated by authors, with over 80% reporting an excellent or good publishing experience with us.
Journal information
- Co-Editors-in-Chief
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- Steven Asch,
- Carol Bates,
- Jeff Jackson
- Publishing model
- Hybrid (Transformative Journal). Learn about publishing Open Access with us
Journal metrics
- 4.597 (2019)
- Impact factor
- 4.950 (2019)
- Five year impact factor
- 27 days
- Submission to first decision
- 81 days
- Submission to acceptance
- 1,484,175 (2019)
- Downloads
Latest issue
Latest articles
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Patients’, Staff, and Providers’ Factual Knowledge About Hospital Chaplains and Association with Desire for Chaplain Services
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
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Journal updates
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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
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Article Collections
Click here to see the article collections that the journal has published in recent years, including a collection of relevant articles and other resources published in Journal of General Internal Medicine regarding COVID-19.
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Society Updates
SGIM Forum is the official newsletter of the Society of General Internal Medicine! SGIM Forum offers articles, essays, thought pieces and editorials that reflect on health care trends, report on Society activities, and explore important issues for general internists in U.S. healthcare and globally.
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Introducing JGIM's Editors-in-Chief
The Journal of General Internal Medicine
(JGIM) is
proud to have three Editors-in-Chief for the journal including Steven M Asch, Carol Bates, and Jeffrey L Jackson.
Societies, partners and affiliations
About this journal
- Electronic ISSN
- 1525-1497
- Print ISSN
- 0884-8734
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- BIOSIS
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CNKI
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
- Dimensions
- EBSCO Academic Search
- EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection
- EBSCO CINAHL
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- EBSCO Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- EBSCO STM Source
- EMBASE
- Google Scholar
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
- Medline
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- ProQuest Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
- ProQuest Algology, Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C)
- ProQuest Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
- ProQuest Biological Science Database
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Environmental Science
- ProQuest Genetics Abstracts
- ProQuest Health & Medical Collection
- ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection
- ProQuest Healthcare Administration Database
- ProQuest Medical Database
- ProQuest Natural Science Collection
- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database
- ProQuest Pharma Collection
- ProQuest Research Library
- ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
- ProQuest Virology and AIDS Abstracts
- ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
- ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
- PubMedCentral
- Reaxys
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch)
- Semantic Scholar
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Copyright information