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: 2020 Journal Impact Factors (Journal Citation Reports, 2021)

• Surveillance Summaries – 58.769; ranked 1^st
• Recommendations and Reports – 55.857; ranked 2^nd
• Weekly – 17.586; ranked 7^th
• All ranked out of 203 journals in the subject category of PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

MMWR  Series: 2020 Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)external icon

• Recommendations and Reports ‒ SJR: 40.949; ranked 2^nd among 32,958 journals
• Surveillance Summaries ‒ SJR: 19.961; ranked 13^th among 32,958 journals
• Weekly ‒ SJR: 7.992; ranked 124^th among 32,958 journals

MMWR  Weekly: Google Scholar h-Index (2021)

• h5-indexexternal icon:141; h5-median:274
• Ranked 82^nd of top 100 publications overallexternal icon
• Ranked 1^st of top 20 publications in Epidemiologyexternal icon.

Circulation

• More than 190,000 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