Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Med. Decis. Making Edited by Alan J. Schwartz | Language English Publication history 1981-present | |
Discipline Decision-making, medical informatics Publisher SAGE Publications on behalf of the Society for Medical Decision Making | ||
Medical Decision Making is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of decision-making and medical informatics. Its editor-in-chief is Alan J. Schwartz (University of Illinois at Chicago). It was established in 1981 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Society for Medical Decision Making. A sister open access journal focusing on applications of medical decision making, Medical Decision Making Policy & Practice, began publishing in 2016.
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Abstracting and indexing
Medical Decision Making is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2014 impact factor is 3.240, ranking it 4th out of 24 journals in the category "Medical Informatics" and 14th out of 89 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Editors
The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal: