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Overview

Publish groundbreaking research in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, with 2.8 Impact Factor and 19 days to first decision.

With a large and dedicated global readership and a section focusing on research in low and middle income countries, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is a well-established open-access journal welcoming research on the biomedical aspects of pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor, maternal health, maternity care, fetal medicine, trends, and sociological aspects of pregnancy and childbirth. This journal is part of the BMC series, a collection of journals that are focused on individual research communities, publishing all scientifically valid studies based on community-aligned standards of questioning, methods and analysis.

  • Topics include pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor, maternal health, maternity care, and more
  • Offers a section dedicated to research in low and middle income countries
  • High visibility for your work with open access
  • Indexed in PubMed, Web of Science (SCIE), Scopus, DOAJ and more
Lead Editor
  • Asiyah Franklin PhD

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
2.7 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.3 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
12 days
Downloads
11.4M (2025)

Calls for papers

Collection

Mental health during and after pregnancy

The mental health of birthing people is a critical consideration that fundamentally affects the lives of parents, infants, and entire communities.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
01 March 2027

Collection

Detecting and treating ectopic pregnancies

Ectopic pregnancies affect approximately 1 in 50 pregnancies and can lead to severe complications, including maternal morbidity and mortality.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
29 January 2027

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1471-2393
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. Baidu
  3. CAB Abstracts
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  8. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  9. DOAJ
  10. Dimensions
  11. EMBASE
  12. EMCare
  13. Gale
  14. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  15. Google Scholar
  16. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  17. Medline
  18. Naver
  19. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  20. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  21. Ovid Discovery
  22. Portico
  23. ProQuest
  24. PubMedCentral
  25. Reaxys
  26. SCImago
  27. SCOPUS
  28. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  29. Semantic Scholar
  30. TD Net Discovery Service
  31. Wanfang
  32. eLibrary.ru
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