Article Characteristics by Family Medicine Journal (N = 431 Articles)
| Journal | Editorial office | Impact factora | No. of articles | Study country income level, No. (%) | Authors from LMICs, No. (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Lower middle | Upper middle | Multiple | First authors | Senior authors | ||||
| Annals of Family Medicine | United States | 4.4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 (67) | 4 (44) |
| Asia Pacific Family Medicine | Japan | NAb | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 (83) | 4 (67) |
| Australian Journal of General Practice | Australia | 1.6 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 12 (92) | 9 (69) |
| Australian Journal of Rural Health | Australia | 1.9 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 10 (91) | 8 (73) |
| BMC Primary Care | United Kingdom | 2.0 | 106 | 8 | 39 | 51 | 8 | 90 (85) | 80 (75) |
| British Journal of General Practice | United Kingdom | 5.3 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 (50) | 6 (75) |
| Canadian Family Physician | Canada | 2.4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 (0) | 1 (20) |
| European Journal of General Practice | Netherlands | 2.3 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 9 (75) | 8 (67) |
| Family Medicine | United States | 1.8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 (17) | 4 (67) |
| Family Medicine and Community Health | United States | 2.6 | 39 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 28 (72) | 23 (59) |
| Family Practice | United States | 2.4 | 60 | 1 | 12 | 46 | 1 | 55 (92) | 47 (78) |
| Journal of General and Family Medicine | United States | 1.8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 (60) | 3 (60) |
| Journal of Primary Health Care | New Zealand | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 (100) | 1 (100) |
| Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine | United States | 2.4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 (100) | 4 (80) |
| Rural and Remote Health | Australia | 2.0 | 144 | 9 | 40 | 85 | 10 | 107 (74) | 92 (64) |
| Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care | Sweden | 1.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Overall | … | … | 431 | 22 (5.1) | 127 (29.4) | 241 (55.9) | 41 (9.5) | 336 (78) | 294 (68) |
LMIC = low- or middle-income country (includes low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries).
↵a As of 2023. Number of times journal’s articles are cited in the last 2 years divided by total number of publications in journal in those 2 years. Higher values indicate greater yearly mean number of citations of articles published.
↵b Asia Pacific Family Medicine ceased to be published by BioMed Central on December 31, 2018.