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 over 2.9 million article downloads in 2021.
- 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). How to publish with us, including Open Access
Journal metrics
- 5.7 (2022)
- Impact factor
- 6.2 (2022)
- Five year impact factor
- 7 days
- Submission to first decision (Median)
- 3,798,857 (2022)
- Downloads
Latest issue
Latest articles
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Disparities in Primary Care No-Shows for Patients with Limited English Proficiency at a Safety-Net Hospital: Retrospective Cohort Analysis
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Anti-hypertensive Medication Use Among People with and without Substance Use Disorders
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Journal updates
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Themed issue on The Science of Electronic Health Record Transitions: Call for Submissions
JGIM is launching a themed issue on The Science of Electronic Health Record Transitions, edited by Michael Weiner, Seppo Rinne, Elizabeth Yano.
The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2022.
The Editors are looking for submissions that are related to current issues on electronic health record transitions.
More detail of the scope, topics of special interest and articles considered is available here.
Manuscript submissions should follow JGIM submission guidelines and be made in the usual way through the submission system by 1 November 2022.
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COVID-19 research collection
To help keep our readers up-to-date on research and analysis related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have created this collection of articles and other resources published in Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Society Updates
Click here for updates from the journal's society, the Society of General Internal Medicine, including information on newsletters, meetings, and much more!
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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.
Societies, partners and affiliations
About this journal
- Electronic ISSN
- 1525-1497
- Print ISSN
- 0884-8734
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
- Dimensions
- EBSCO Academic Search
- EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection
- EBSCO CINAHL
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- EBSCO Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- EBSCO MasterFILE
- EBSCO STM Source
- EMBASE
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
- Medline
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest Algology, Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C)
- ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
- ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
- PubMedCentral
- Reaxys
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Semantic Scholar
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information