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The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Template

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The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Medical History and Innovations, History of Medicine Studies, History of Medical Practice.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inMedical History and Innovations History of Medicine Studies History of Medical Practice Innovations in Medical Education Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
ISSN1478-2715
Citation impact (2-yr)1.23
h-index43
i10-index296
Total citations13,263
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Edinburgh
Journal websitewww.rcpe.ac.uk
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Papers published in The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh per year

102
2014
79
2015
89
2016
103
2017
93
2018
108
2019
146
2020
151
2021
104
2022
96
2023
94
2024
82
2025

Citation impact of The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh by publication year

492
2014
1.3K
2015
405
2016
915
2017
733
2018
873
2019
1.1K
2020
559
2021
435
2022
225
2023
191
2024
17
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Qualitative research in healthcare: An introduction to grounded theory using thematic analysis

A. L. N. Chapman, M. Hadfield, CJ Chapman · 1 Sep 2015

In today's NHS, qualitative research is increasingly important as a method of assessing and improving quality of care. Grounded theory has developed as an analytical approach to qualitative data over the last 40 years. It is primarily an inductive process whereby theoretical insights are generated from data, in contrast to deductive research where theoretical hypotheses…

Retrospective Studies – Utility and Caveats

Keerthi Talari, Mohit Goyal · 1 Dec 2020

A thorough understanding of the pros and cons of the various study designs is critical to correct interpretation of their results. Retrospective studies are an important tool to study rare diseases, manifestations and outcomes. Findings of these studies can form the basis on which prospective studies are planned. Retrospective studies however have several limitations owing…

Simulation in Medical Education

Hing‐yu So, Phoon Ping Chen, George Kwok Chu Wong et al. · 1 Mar 2019

Simulation is a method or technique to produce an experience without going through the real event. There are multiple elements to consider for a simulation programme, and technology is only one of the many dimensions. The ultimate goal is to engage learners to experience the simulated scenario followed by effective feedback and debriefing. Simulation is…

Cognitive Bias in Clinical Medicine

Eoin O’Sullivan, SJ Schofield · 1 Sep 2018

Cognitive bias is increasingly recognised as an important source of medical error, and is both ubiquitous across clinical practice yet incompletely understood. This increasing awareness of bias has resulted in a surge in clinical and psychological research in the area and development of various 'debiasing strategies'. This paper describes the potential origins of bias based…

Physicians’ health practices strongly influence patient health practices

EB Oberg, Erica Frank · 1 Dec 2009

Physicians who practise healthy habits play a key role by helping their patients to adopt healthy lifestyles for primary prevention of chronic diseases. The health of general practitioners (GPs) is important because they serve as health role models and because they are more likely to counsel their patients about health behaviour change if they practise…

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