Journal Title：Midwifery

Midwifery publishes the latest peer reviewed international research to inform the safety, quality, outcomes and experiences of pregnancy, birth and maternity care for childbearing women, their babies and families. The journal’s publications support midwives and maternity care providers to explore and develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes informed by best available evidence.

Midwifery provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the publication, dissemination and discussion of advances in evidence, controversies and current research, and promotes continuing education through publication of systematic and other scholarly reviews and updates. Midwifery articles cover the cultural, clinical, psycho-social, sociological, epidemiological, education, managerial, workforce, organizational and technological areas of practice in preconception, maternal and infant care.

The journal welcomes the highest quality scholarly research that employs rigorous methodology. Midwifery is a leading international journal in midwifery and maternal health with a current impact factor of 1.861 (? Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2016) and employs a double-blind peer review process.

《助產學》發表最新的同行評審國際研究，為育齡婦女、她們的嬰兒和家庭提供有關懷孕、分娩和產婦護理的安全性、質量、結果和經驗的信息。該期刊的出版物支持助產士和產婦護理提供者根據最佳現有證據探索和發展他們的知識、技能和態度。

《助產學》為發表、傳播和討論證據、爭議和當前研究的進展提供了一個國際、跨學科的論壇，并通過發表系統和其他學術評論和更新來促進繼續教育。《助產學》文章涵蓋了孕前、產婦和嬰兒護理實踐的文化、臨床、社會心理、社會學、流行病學、教育、管理、勞動力、組織和技術等領域。

該期刊歡迎采用嚴格方法的最高質量的學術研究。 《助產學》是助產學和產婦保健領域的領先國際期刊，當前影響因子為 1.861（? Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2016），并采用雙盲同行評審流程。

Midwifery創刊于1985年，由Churchill Livingstone出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋醫學 - 護理全領域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業認可度不錯，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 偏慢,4-8周 約13.4周，影響因子指數2.6，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。