Birth (journal)

Birth is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on childbirth and related topics. It was established in 1973 as Birth and the Family Journal, with as its founding editor-in-chief Madeleine H. Shearer, obtaining its current name in 1982. It is published by John Wiley & Sons and the editor-in-chief is Melissa Cheyney.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • CAB Abstracts

• CINAHL

• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine

• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences

• EBSCO databases

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed

• ProQuest databases

• PsycINFO

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Scopus

• Social Sciences Citation Index According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.689.