Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal


The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is a quarterly international, peer-reviewed, open access medical journal sponsored by Rambam Health Care Campus covering medical research, in the spirit of Maimonides. The journal was established in July 2010, and the editor-in-chief is Shraga Blazer.
The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal charges no submission, publication, or subscription fees, and it is supported by donors. The journal also has a no-advertisement policy.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed Central, EBSCO Information Services, the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, Journal Citation Reports, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Cabell’s Scholarly Analytics, Google Scholar, and Crossref.
The journal had a JCR impact factor of 1.5 for 2022 and a 2022 Scopus of 2.6. The journal has published multiple articles of interest that have been cross-posted on university websites, medical societies, businesses, and more. The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is known in particular for publishing articles relating to Jewish ethics, Jewish law and medicine, controversial topics of strong potential benefit to the academic and medical communities, and the history of medicine—particularly with regard to Judaism and Jewish contributions to medicine.