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The Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) is a comprehensive journal that matches the broad scope of general internal medicine (GIM). It aims to promote advancements in clinical and health services research, medical education, and clinical practice in primary care, general internal medicine, and hospital medicine.

  • Official Journal of the Society of General internal Medicine (SGIM)
  • Focused on topics in clinical general medicine, epidemiology, disease prevention, equity in health care delivery, advancing medical education and curriculum development in internal medicine
  • An efficient and rigorous peer review ensures content quality and provides expert guidance for clinicians, educators and researchers in internal medicine
  • Explores numerous other non-traditional themes, narrative medicine, and innovative methods as they apply to GIM

Co-Editors-In-Chief
  • Joseph Conigliaro MD, MPH
  • D. Michael Elnicki MD
  • Lenny López MD, MPH, MDiv
Editorial Board
  • Joseph Conigliaro MD, MPH
  • Lenny López MD, MPH, MDiv

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Journal Impact Factor
4.1 (2025)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
5.2 (2025)
Submission to first decision (median)
14 days
Downloads
6.3M (2025)

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Electronic ISSN
1525-1497
Print ISSN
0884-8734
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. BIOSIS
  3. Baidu
  4. Biological Abstracts
  5. CAB Abstracts
  6. CLOCKSS
  7. CNKI
  8. CNPIEC
  9. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  10. Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
  11. Dimensions
  12. EBSCO
  13. EMBASE
  14. Google Scholar
  15. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  16. Medline
  17. Naver
  18. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  19. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  20. Ovid Discovery
  21. Portico
  22. ProQuest
  23. PubMedCentral
  24. Reaxys
  25. SCImago
  26. SCOPUS
  27. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  28. Semantic Scholar
  29. TD Net Discovery Service
  30. Wanfang
  31. eLibrary.ru
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