The ''Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal'' is a quarterly international,

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Rambam Health Care Campus Rambam Health Care Campus () commonly called Rambam Hospital, is a teaching hospital in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa, Israel. Rambam Health Care Campus is a part of Tertiary Referral Center for Northern Israel, It was founded in 1938. It ...

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. The journal was established in July 2010 and the

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is Shraga Blazer. The ''Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal'' charges no submission, publication, or subscription fees and is supported by donors. The journal also has a no-advertisement policy. The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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The journal has a JCR impact factor (IF) of 1.5 for 2022; and a 2022 SCOPUS CiteScore Factor 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 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.

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