Scimago Journal & Country Rank

International Journal of Childbirth

Country

United States

Universities and research institutions in United States
Media Ranking in United States

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Springer Publishing Company

H-Index

7

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

21565287, 21565295

Coverage

2018-2023

Information

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Scope

The journal is of interest to midwives, maternity care and neonatal nurses, maternity service users, obstetricians, neonatologists, pediatricians, physiologists, health sociologists, physiotherapists, health economists, biologists, and psychologists with an interest in maternal and infant research, maternity service policy makers and managers, doulas, traditional birth attendants, childbirth educators, and students of maternity care. The International Journal of Childbirth (IJCB), a quarterly publication of Springer Publishing Company. The IJCB is listed in the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index. The mission of IJCB is to disseminate original research, theoretical insights, case studies, and authoritative opinions that enhance our reader’s evidence-based safe practice in prenatal, antepartal, intrapartal, and postpartal care. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed by a distinguished editorial board. The IJCB encourages the following professions to submit manuscripts: nurses, midwives, obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine physicians, physiologists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, physiotherapists, economists, biologists, pediatricians, neonatologists, maternity service policy makers, health care leaders, health care safety experts, doulas, traditional birth attendants, childbirth educators, and students of maternity care to submit manuscripts that may have an impact on maternal and/or fetal health. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Maternity and Midwifery2019Q4
Maternity and Midwifery2020Q3
Maternity and Midwifery2021Q3
Maternity and Midwifery2022Q3
Maternity and Midwifery2023Q4
Obstetrics and Gynecology2019Q4
Obstetrics and Gynecology2020Q3
Obstetrics and Gynecology2021Q3
Obstetrics and Gynecology2022Q3
Obstetrics and Gynecology2023Q3
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20190.113
20200.178
20210.159
20220.211
20230.170
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
201830
201921
202020
202121
202225
202319
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20180.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.133
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.294
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.338
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20220.576
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20230.747
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20180.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.133
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.294
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.338
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20220.629
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20230.682
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20180.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.133
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.294
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.366
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20220.561
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.457
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20180
Self Cites20190
Self Cites20201
Self Cites20214
Self Cites20221
Self Cites20232
Total Cites20180
Total Cites20194
Total Cites202015
Total Cites202124
Total Cites202239
Total Cites202345
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20180
External Cites per document20190.133
External Cites per document20200.275
External Cites per document20210.282
External Cites per document20220.613
External Cites per document20230.652
Cites per document20180.000
Cites per document20190.133
Cites per document20200.294
Cites per document20210.338
Cites per document20220.629
Cites per document20230.682
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
201826.67
201914.29
202025.00
20219.52
202220.00
202326.32
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20180
Non-citable documents20193
Non-citable documents20207
Non-citable documents20218
Non-citable documents20226
Non-citable documents20234
Citable documents20180
Citable documents201927
Citable documents202044
Citable documents202163
Citable documents202256
Citable documents202362
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20180
Uncited documents201926
Uncited documents202041
Uncited documents202150
Uncited documents202238
Uncited documents202344
Cited documents20180
Cited documents20194
Cited documents202010
Cited documents202121
Cited documents202224
Cited documents202322
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
201884.42
201974.14
202075.44
202149.35
202267.50
202371.83
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20183
Overton20191
Overton20200
Overton20210
Overton20220
Overton20230
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG201824
SDG201917
SDG202016
SDG202111
SDG202218
SDG202312
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