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International Breastfeeding Journal

Publishing model:
Open access

Overview

Encompassing all aspects of breastfeeding, International Breastfeeding Journal aims to address topics including identifying women who are at increased risk of not breastfeeding; the impediments to breastfeeding and the health effects of not breastfeeding for infants and their mothers; interventions to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration; and the management of breastfeeding problems. The journal also offers an excellent service for authors and offers high visibility and discoverability for all published articles.

Editor-in-Chief
  • Prof Lisa Amir

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
2.8 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.4 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
6 days
Downloads
1.1M (2024)

Calls for papers

Latest articles

Journal updates

  • Vacancy: Editor-in-Chief

    International Breastfeeding Journal is seeking to appoint an Editor-in-Chief. 

    The newly appointed Editor-in-Chief will have full editorial responsibility for the content published in the Journal and for ensuring that the ethos, editorial standards, policies and scope of International Breastfeeding Journal are maintained. 

  • Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week 2025

    World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world.

    We've collected our top content on breastfeeding across Springer Nature. Check out the blog!

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1746-4358
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. AGRICOLA
  2. Baidu
  3. CAB Abstracts
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
  8. DOAJ
  9. Dimensions
  10. EBSCO
  11. EMCare
  12. Gale
  13. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  14. Google Scholar
  15. IFIS Publishing
  16. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  17. Medline
  18. Naver
  19. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  20. Portico
  21. ProQuest
  22. PubMedCentral
  23. SCImago
  24. SCOPUS
  25. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  26. Semantic Scholar
  27. TD Net Discovery Service
  28. Wanfang
  29. eLibrary.ru

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