Medical Decision Making (journal)
Medical Decision Making is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of decision-making and medical informatics. Its editor-in-chief is Alan J. Schwartz (University of Illinois at Chicago). It was established in 1981 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Society for Medical Decision Making. A sister open access journal focusing on applications of medical decision making, Medical Decision Making Policy & Practice, began publishing in 2016.
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| Discipline | Decision-making, medical informatics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Alan J. Schwartz |
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| History | 1981-present |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications on behalf of the Society for Medical Decision Making |
| Frequency | 8/year |
| 2.793 (2018) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Med. Decis. Mak. |
| NLM | Med Decis Making |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | MDMADE |
| ISSN | 0272-989X (print) 1552-681X (web) |
| OCLC no. | 300296676 |
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Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2018 impact factor is 2.793, ranking it 10th out of 26 journals in the category "Medical Informatics"[1] and 25th out of 98 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services".[2]
Editors
The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:
- Lee B. Lusted, 1981–1985
- Dennis G. Fryback, 1986–1988
- J. Robert Beck, 1989–1994
- Arthur S. Elstein, 1995–1999
- Frank A. Sonnenberg, 2000–2004
- Mark Helfand, 2005–2012
- Alan J. Schwartz, 2013-2020
- Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, appointed 2021-2025
References
- "Journals Ranked by Impact: Medical Informatics". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.
- "Journals Ranked by Impact: Health Care Sciences & Services". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.