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British Journal of General Practice

Field	Value
title	British Journal of General Practice
cover	[[File:British Journal of General Practice cover.jpg]]
editor	Euan Lawson
formernames	College of General Practitioners' Research Newsletter, Journal of the College of General Practitioners, Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
discipline	Family medicine
abbreviation	Br. J. Gen. Pract.
publisher	Royal College of General Practitioners
country	United Kingdom
frequency	Monthly
history	1953–present
openaccess	Hybrid
impact	5.3
impact-year	2023
website	https://bjgp.org/
link1	https://bjgp.org/content/current
link1-name	Online access
link2	http://bjgp.org/content/by/year
link2-name	Online archive
OCLC	55135715
ISSN	0960-1643
eISSN	1478-5242

| impact-year = 2023 | link1-name = Online access | link2-name = Online archive The British Journal of General Practice is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal for general practitioners and primary care researchers.

History

The journal was established in 1953 as the College of General Practitioners' Research Newsletter. It was renamed Journal of the College of General Practitioners in 1960 (from 1967 Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners), before obtaining its current name in 1990. Since 2013, the journal's digital content is hosted by HighWire Press.

Research articles are published as open access. The journal publishes editorials on clinical and policy topics, debate and analysis, clinical guidance, and a section called "Life & Times" which contains reviews of art, books, and film as well as viewpoints, polemic, and entertainment. In the course of its history, the journal has had nine editors: Roger Jones was the editor-in-chief until April 2020 and the current editor is Euan Lawson. The editorial office and the journal team are located at the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
Science Citation Index
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, it has a 2021 impact factor of 6.302.

References

"About BJGP". British Journal of General Practice.
(2013-05-01). "HighWire to host British Journal of General Practice". Stanford University Libraries.
"British Journal of General Practice". [[National Center for Biotechnology Information]].
"Master Journal List". [[Thomson Reuters]].
"Scopus title list". [[Elsevier]].
(June 2015). "2014 Journal Citation Reports". [[Thomson Reuters]].

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