Journal profile
BMC Public Health
BMC Public Health is published by BioMed Central under ISSN 1471-2458. It holds an h-index of 291 across 35,554 indexed works, with a two-year mean citedness of 4.65, and is open access. Its main subject areas are Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Health disparities and outcomes, Physical Activity and Health.
Below: the full publication record, and one real article from the journal formatted in IEEE, APA, and BibTeX so you can match field order against a source you can check.
Publication record and impact metrics
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN-L | 1471-2458 |
| Indexed works | 35,554 |
| Total citations | 1,145,721 |
| h-index | 291 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.65 |
| Open access | Open access, listed in DOAJ |
| Main topics | Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Health disparities and outcomes · Physical Activity and Health · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Global Maternal and Child Health |
Publication figures come from this journal's OpenAlex record, released under CC0, and are a dated snapshot rather than a live count. Check the publisher for current scope and submission requirements.
A worked example from this journal
The source
External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register
- Authors
- Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Eva Andersson, Anders Ekbom, Maria Feychting, Jeong‐Lim Kim, Christina Reuterwall, and 2 more
- Year
- 2011
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 450
IEEE
J. F. Ludvigsson, E. Andersson, A. Ekbom, M. Feychting, J. Kim, C. Reuterwall et al. "External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register," BMC Public Health, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 450, 2011, doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-450.
IEEE prints author initials before the surname and abbreviates the periodical title. Check the abbreviation for BMC Public Health against your target publication's reference list before submitting.
APA
Ludvigsson, J. F., Andersson, E., Ekbom, A., Feychting, M., Kim, J., & Reuterwall, C., et al. (2011). External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register. BMC Public Health, 11(1), 450. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-450
APA puts the year directly after the authors, keeps the full journal title in italics, and renders the DOI as a URL.
BibTeX
@article{ludvigsson2011,
author = {Jonas F. Ludvigsson and Eva Andersson and Anders Ekbom and Maria Feychting and Jeong‐Lim Kim and Christina Reuterwall},
title = {External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register},
journal = {BMC Public Health},
volume = {11},
number = {1},
pages = {450},
year = {2011},
issn = {1471-2458},
doi = {10.1186/1471-2458-11-450}
}The citation key is the first author's surname and the year. Keep it stable once it appears in a draft, because renaming it breaks every cite that used it.
What to verify before you submit
- The volume and page range. BMC Public Health records 35,554 works, and articles published online first can carry a different volume from the final issue. Cite the version you read.
- The abbreviated title. IEEE style uses standard periodical abbreviations, and registry metadata almost always returns the full name instead.
- Author name order. Registry records store full given names; IEEE and APA both want initials, formatted differently from each other.
- Whether the article is open access. This journal is open access and listed in DOAJ, which affects whether a reader can reach the version you cited.
- That the source supports your claim. A correctly formatted reference says nothing about whether the passage backs the sentence citing it.
How this journal sits in the record
BMC Public Health carries an h-index of 291, which is above 27% of the journals covered here, and its articles have accumulated 1,145,721 citations across 35,554 indexed works. Its two-year mean citedness is 4.65.
4 of the journals covered here are published by BioMed Central. Reference style is set per title rather than per publisher, so do not carry a format across from a sibling journal without checking.
These are indexing figures describing how often work in this venue is cited. They say nothing about whether a particular article is sound, and they are not a substitute for reading it.
Questions about BMC Public Health
What is the ISSN of BMC Public Health?
The linking ISSN is 1471-2458. Use it in a BibTeX issn field so the entry stays resolvable.
Who publishes BMC Public Health?
BioMed Central publishes it. 4 journals covered here come from the same publisher, and they do not all share one reference style, so check the requirements for this title rather than the publisher.
Is BMC Public Health open access?
OpenAlex records it as open access and it is listed in DOAJ. An open-access article is reachable by any reader, so a reviewer can check the passage you cited without a subscription.
How do I cite an article from BMC Public Health in LaTeX?
Use the BibTeX entry above as the pattern. The entry type is article, the journal field holds the full title, and the citation key ludvigsson2011 follows the first author's surname and the year. Brace any acronym in the title so your bibliography style does not lowercase it.
Does BMC Public Health use page numbers or article numbers?
The example article runs from page 450, so this journal used page ranges at least for that volume. Newer issues in many journals switched to article numbers, so check the version you are citing.
How influential is BMC Public Health?
Its h-index is 291, above 27% of the journals covered here, and its articles have been cited 1,145,721 times in total. Its two-year mean citedness is 4.65. These are indexing figures, not a judgement of whether a specific article is sound.
Does BMC Public Health have a Journal Impact Factor?
Not one shown here. The Journal Impact Factor is Clarivate's metric, published in Journal Citation Reports and readable only with a JCR subscription, so this page does not restate it. The figures above come from OpenAlex: an h-index of 291 and a two-year mean citedness of 4.65 across 35,554 indexed works, captured on 2026-09-18. Mean citedness averages citations per work over a two-year window, which makes it closer in construction to CiteScore than to the Impact Factor. The three are not interchangeable, so quote whichever one your target venue actually asks for.