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Respectful maternity care

Guest Edited by Raymond Akawire Aborigo, Wubet Alebachew Bayih, Hilary Brown, and Shuby Puthussery

Screening and management of food insecurity in pregnancy

Guest Edited by Kingsley Agho and Paige van der Pligt

Quality improvement in maternal and reproductive health services

Guest Edited by Erika M. Edwards, Celia Karp, and Hannah Tappis

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Aims and scope

BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of pregnancy and childbirth. The journal welcomes submissions on the biomedical aspects of pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor, maternal health, maternity care, trends and sociological aspects of pregnancy and childbirth.

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact
    3.105 - 2-year Impact Factor (2021)
    3.853 - 5-year Impact Factor (2021)
    1.518 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.960 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    Speed
    43 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    68 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)

    Usage 
    8,584,887 Downloads (2022)
    4,644 Altmetric mentions (2021)

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

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