The Milbank Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal for the health care

Health care

Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...

 sector published since 1923. It has either led, or been in the top three, for impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

 of 49 journals in Health Policy & Services, and of 69 journals in Health Care Sciences & Services since 2003.

The Milbank Quarterly is published four times per year by Wiley-Blackwell and the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed national foundation funded by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson

Elizabeth Milbank Anderson

Elizabeth Milbank Anderson , philanthropist and advocate for public health and women's education, was the daughter of Jeremiah Milbank , a successful commission merchant, manufacturer and investor, and Elizabeth Lake...

 that supports research of issues related to health policy. All articles since 1997 are available online via the Milbank website and articles since 1923 are available via JSTOR

JSTOR

JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

.

The journal is indexed by Abstracts in Health Care Management Studies; Abstracts in Hygiene & Communicable Diseases; Abstracts in Social Gerontology; Academic ASAP; Expanded Academic ASAP; Academic Search Elite; Academic Search Premier; Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts; Biological Abstracts; Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive; Biomedical Reference Collection: Corporate; Business ASAP; Business Periodical Index; Business Source: Corporate; Business Source Elite; Business Source Premier; CatchWord; Chemical Abstracts; Corporate ResourceNet; Current Bibliographies in Medicine; Current Contents

Current Contents

Current Contents is a rapid alerting service database from the Institute for Scientific Information, now part of Thomson Reuters, that is published online and in several different printed subject sections.-History:...

/Social & Behavioral Science; Current Literature in Family Planning; EBSCO Legal Collection; EBSCO Online; Future Survey; General Business File ASAP; Health Business FullTEXT Elite; Health Index; Health Reference Center; Hospital Literature Index; Hospital Management Review; Human Resources Abstracts; ISI Basic Social Sciences Index; Index Medicus

Index medicus

Index Medicus is a comprehensive index of medical scientific journal articles, published since 1879. It was initiated by John Shaw Billings, head of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army...

; InfoSouth Abstracts; InfoTrac OneFile; Ingenta; International Bibliography of Sociology; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; JCR

Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by the Healthcare & Science division of Thomson Reuters. It has been integrated with the Web of Knowledge, by Thomson Reuters, and is accessed from the Web of Science to JCR Web. It provides information about academic journals in the sciences and...

 Science Edition; JCR Social Sciences Edition; Medical Care Review; Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews; Online Computer Library Center FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online; OVID; Periodical Abstracts Research II; ProQuest Social Science Plus Text; PsycINFO

PsycINFO

PsycINFO is a database of abstracts of literature in the field of psychology. It is produced by the American Psychological Association and distributed on the association's and through third-party vendors. It is the electronic version of the now-ceased Psychological Abstracts...

; Psychological Abstracts; Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection; Public Affairs Information Service International; Science Citation Index

Science Citation Index

The Science Citation Index is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960, which is now owned by Thomson Reuters. The larger version covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from ...

; Social Gerontology; Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Sciences Index/Full Text; Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Sociological Collection; Tropical Diseases Bulletin; Wilson Business Abstracts; Wilson OmniFile V; Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts; and Wilson Social Sciences Index.

Previous titles

• The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society (1973–1985)
• The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly (1934–1972)
• The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin (1923–1933)