Journals
*Information taken from the journals’ respective webpages*
Academic Medicine (Acad Med)
2023 IF: 8.034
Frequency: 12 issues per year
Country: United States
Publisher: AAMC
Official peer-reviewed journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Academic Medicine currently is the highest impact factor journal in medical education. Published since July 1926, it “serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry out its missions in the public interest. The journal’s areas of focus include education and training issues; health and science policy; institutional policy, management, and values; research practice; and clinical practice in academic settings.”
Webpage: https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/default.aspx
Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice
2021 IF: 3.629
Frequency: 5 issues per year
Country: Netherlands
Publisher: Springer
Peer-reviewed journal published since January 1996 that aims to be “a forum for scholarly and state-of-the art research into all aspects of health sciences education.” Its focus is on the connection between theory and practice. From this follows that priority is given to articles with a sound theoretical basis and strong methodology.
BMC Medical Education (BMC Med Educ)
2021 IF: 3.263
Frequency: 12 issues per year
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: BioMed Central – Part of Springer Nature
Open access journal that publishes “original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.”
Webpage: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIotLwtNK87wIVyuDICh3sEwRVEAAYASAAEgKWpPD_BwE
Canadian Medical Education Journal (CMEJ)
2023 IF: –
Frequency: 6 issues per year
Country: Canada
Publisher: Canadian Medical Education Journal
Online non-profit open-access peer-reviewed journal first published in 2010, CMEJ “examines subject matter relating to the formation, education, and training of health care professionals before and after licensure in Canada and internationally.” It targets a large audience including health trainees, clinician teachers, medical education researchers, practitioners and professionals, administrators, decision-makers, medical schools, and universities.
Health Education Journal (Health Educ J)
2023 IF: 1.492
Frequency: 8 issues per year
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: SAGE
Published since March 1943, this is “a peer reviewed journal publishing high quality papers on health education as it relates to individuals, populations, groups, and communities vulnerable to and/or at risk of health issues and problems. A strongly educational perspective is adopted with a focus on activities, interventions, and programmes that work well in the contexts in which they are applied. The journal considers original papers on health education research, methodology, policy development, and practice.”
Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
2023 IF: 2.190
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Country: United States
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Published since January 1981, this “is the official journal of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, the Association for Hospital Medical Education, and the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education.” The main goal of JCEHP is to “improve the scholarship and practice of continuing professional development at the nexus of patient safety, implementation science, quality improvement, continuing education and faculty development across Medicine, Nursing, and other health professions.”
Journal of Graduate Medical Education (J Grad Med Educ)
2023 IF: –
Frequency: 6 issues per year
Country: United States
Publisher: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Published since September 2009, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) is the bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the United States. The journal focuses on research about graduate medical education (residents and fellows).
Webpage: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
2023 IF: –
Frequency: 12 issues per year
Country: –
Publisher: SAGE
Published since January 2015, this peer-reviewed open access journal is interested in publishing research reports on medical education and curricular development including basic science, clinical, and postgraduate medical education.
Medical Education (Med Educ)
2021 IF: 7.647
Frequency: 12 issues per year
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd & The Association of the Study of Medical Education
Second in the ranking of high impact factor journals in health professions education Medical Education aims to publish highly relevant research reports in all aspects of health professions education including undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing professional development, and interprofessional education.
Medical Education Online (Med Educ Online)
2021 IF: 6.000
Frequency: 1 issue per year
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Open access journal published since 1996. Whereas it publishes peer-reviewed research reports, its main focus is on perspectives, reviews, and pieces of work that address any aspect of health care education and training.
Medical Science Educator (Med Sci Educ)
2023 IF: 0.54
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Country: United States
Publisher: Springer
Published since March 2011, this is the official peer-reviewed journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). As stressed in its webpage, Medical Science Educator “offers all who teach in healthcare the most current information to succeed in their task by publishing scholarly activities, opinions, and resources in medical science education. Published articles focus on teaching the sciences fundamental to modern medicine and health, and include basic science education, clinical teaching, and the use of modern education technologies.”
Medical Teacher (Med Teach)
2021 IF: 4.277
Frequency: 12 issues per year
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Official publication of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), Medical Teacher is an international journal that publishes research reports about any aspect of medical education, with a particular focus on teaching approaches and methods. It was first published in January 1979.
Perspectives on Medical Education (Perspect Med Educ)
2020 IF: 2.947
Frequency: 6 issues per year
Country: Netherlands
Publisher: Springer
Official journal of The Netherlands Association of Medical Education (NVMO), Perspectives in Medical Education is a non-profit open access journal published since March 2012 with the aim to “support and enrich collaborative scholarship between education researchers and clinical educators, and to advance new knowledge regarding clinical education practices.”
*Perspectives on Medical Education is now archived and no longer receiving submissions with this publisher. All articles published in the journal during its time with Springer will remain fully searchable through their websites.
Postgraduate Medical Journal (Postgrad Med J)
2021 IF: 4.973
Frequency: 12 issues per year
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Published since October 1925, Postgraduate Medical Journal “is a peer reviewed journal published by BMJ on behalf of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. PMJ publishes papers that focus on core competencies; describe current practice and new developments in all branches of medicine; describe relevance and impact of translational research on clinical practice; provide background relevant to examinations; as well as papers on medical education and medical education research.”
Webpage: https://pmj.bmj.com/
Teaching and Learning in Medicine (Teach Learn Med)
2021 IF: 2.701
Frequency: 5 issues per year
Country: United States
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published since 1989, Teaching and Learning in Medicine “is an international, forum for scholarship on teaching and learning in the health professions. Its international scope reflects the common challenge faced by all medical educators: fostering the development of capable, well-rounded, and continuous learners prepared to practice in a complex, high-stakes, and ever-changing clinical environment.”
The Clinical Teacher (Clin Teach)
2023 IF: 0.76
Frequency: 6 issues per year
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Published since June 2004 on behalf of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME), the Clinical Teacher “is the journal for clinicians who teach and people who are involved in education in a health care setting. It provides easy access to the latest research, practice and thinking in clinical education across the health professions, presented in a readable, stimulating and practical style.”
Education for Primary Care (Educ Prim Care)
2021 IF: 1.8
Frequency: 6 issues per year
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Education for Primary Care is an international journal published whose aim is “to support the implementation of best-evidence medical education relevant to primary care.” Taylor & Francis partners with WONCA in its publication.
Family Medicine (Fam Med)
2022 IF: 2.24
Frequency: 10 issues per year
Country: United States
Publisher: STFM
“Family Medicine, the official journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, publishes original research, systematic reviews, narrative essays, and policy analyses relevant to the discipline of family medicine, particularly focusing on primary care medical education, health workforce policy, and health services research. Journal content is not limited to educational research from family medicine educators; and we welcome innovative, high-quality contributions from authors in a variety of specialties and academic fields.”
Peer-Reviewed Reports in Medical Education Research (PRiMER)
2023 IF: –
Frequency: –
Country: United States
Publisher: STFM
Published since 2017, PRiMER “is an open access scholarly journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. As a companion to other STFM journals, PRiMER is focused on publishing small, rigorously designed original research briefs in medical education and health workforce policy, as well as learner research.”
Webpage: https://journals.stfm.org/primer