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BMC Primary Care

As of the 1st of January 2022, BMC Family Practice has been re-launched as BMC Primary Care. The journal continues to welcome articles on all aspects of primary health care research. By changing our title, we aim to better reflect our aims and scope to an international audience and in turn offer a better service to our authors. For more information, please see our FAQs page. 

Latest collections open to submissions

The role of community health workers in primary care

Guest Edited by Indiran Govender, Lisa R Hirschhorn and Joseph Mumba Zulu

Frailty in primary care

Guest Edited by Kristiana Ludlow, Natasha Reid and Hakan Yaman
 

Outpatient management of the kidney patient for the primary care

Guest Edited by Bernard G Jaar,
Sumeska Thavarajah and David
                                  S. Weisman

Multimorbidity in primary care

Guest Edited by Lloyd D Hughes, Filipe Prazeres, Ingmar Schäfer and Jean Karl Soler

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Physicians in discussion

Symptoms and signs of urogenital cancer in primary care

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Dancing with the patient: a qualitative study of general practitioners’ experiences of managing patients with multimorbidity and common mental health problems

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Aims and scope

BMC Primary Care, previously known as BMC Family Practice, is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of primary health care research. The journal has a special focus on clinical practice and decision-making, continuing professional education, eHealth, health services research in primary care settings, and health promotion.

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact
    2.634 - 2-year Impact Factor 2021
    3.301 - 5-year Impact Factor 2021
    1.339 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.836 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    Speed
    75 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    92 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)

    Usage 
    1,803,564 Downloads (2022)
    1,896 Altmetric mentions 

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

    More information is available here

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BMC Primary Care

ISSN: 2731-4553

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