Who We Are
Maimonides, known as the Rambam, was one of the greatest authorities of all time on matters of Jewish law, one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages, a scientist and researcher, a court physician, and a pre-eminent leader in the society of his time. In addition to his monumental work on Jewish law and ethics, his writings on medicine are classic and remarkable even in the present day. Rambam Health Care Campus (Medical Center) in Haifa, Israel, which bears with pride the name of Maimonides, the Rambam, and aspires always to act by his guiding principles. The Medical Center proudly publishes Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal (RMMJ), a quarterly, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal featuring contributions from physicians and scientists worldwide.
RMMJ focuses on clinically relevant biomedical research and additional issues central to the provision of optimal health care to patients, disease prevention, and public health, and provides a forum for original articles on translational clinical and basic research that moves discoveries from the bench to the bedside and from the bedside to the community. The Journal also publishes reviews, "Rambam Grand Rounds," and symposia reports as well as special essays concerning ethical and societal aspects of medicine.
The editorial policy of RMMJ is guided by the high standards of scientific quality and integrity, professional responsibility, and human compassion that constitute the Rambam’s scholarly and ethical legacy. Like traditional subscription-based scholarly journals, RMMJ applies rigorous peer-review procedures and editorial quality controls to ensure the scientific integrity of its published articles.
In the best interests of the medical and scientific community, RMMJ is freely accessible via the Internet for immediate worldwide, open access to the full text of articles. All readers are able to download and/or print any article at no cost. There are no subscription fees for readers and no submission, processing, or publication fees for the authors (no APCs). Authors who publish in the journal retain the copyright to their article. The Journal is a CrossRef member and works with EBSCO. Its articles are indexed in Scopus, PubMed, and Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). RMMJ is also listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, and Cabell's Journalytics, and is included in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Its articles are also discoverable through Google Scholar.
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The Journal's Impact Factor (IF) has increased from 1.3 in 2024 to 2.0 for 2025. The Journal has also maintained its Q2 position in the “Medicine, General & Internal” category, while moving up in rank from 150 out of 332 journals to 113 out of 336. For more details on the performance of RMMJ, visit our page on Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR) website. Our Scopus CiteScore for 2025 is 2.8.
