About the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR ) series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Often called “the voice of CDC,” the MMWR  series is the agency’s primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.

MMWR  readership predominantly consists of physicians, nurses, public health practitioners, epidemiologists and other scientists, researchers, educators, and laboratorians.

All material in the MMWR  Series is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without special permission; citation as to source, however, is appreciated. Questions or comments about the MMWR Series can be sent to mmwrq@cdc.gov or to the following:

MMWR  Series
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MMWR  Series: 2023 Journal Impact Factors (Journal Citation Reports, 2024)

• Recommendations and Reports – 70.2; ranked 1^st
• Surveillance Summaries – 37.3; ranked 2^nd
• Weekly – 21.0; ranked 6^th
• Ranked out of 408 journals in the subject category of PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH.

MMWR  Series: 2022 Scimago Journal Rank*

• Recommendations and Reports ‒ 23.962; ranked 7^th
• Weekly ‒ 16.786; ranked 20^th
• Surveillance Summaries ‒ 15.178; ranked 27^th
• Supplements – 13.467; ranked 40^th
• All ranked out of 27,955 journals.

* Scopus data is used to calculate the Scimago Journal Rank. Because of errors in data calculated by Scopus, the 2023 Scimago Journal Rank for the MMWR Series is not provided here. Although the errors have been corrected in Scopus, Scimago calculates journal rankings only once for a given year. Thus, there will be no corrections to the 2023 rankings.

MMWR  Weekly: Google Scholar h-Index (2024)

• h5-index:193; h5-median:326
• Ranked 50^th of top 100 publications overall
• Ranked 16^th of top 20 publications in Health & Medical Sciences
• Ranked 1^st of top 20 publications in Epidemiology.

Circulation

• More than 147,000 electronic subscribers
• The journal site receives more than 17 million page views (CDC Web Statistics).

The MMWR  series of publications is identifiable by the following ISSN numbers:

* Electronic version of the publication