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Q3Southern Medical Journal
About Southern Medical Journal
Southern Medical Journal is a scholarly journal published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. SCImago 2025 places it in Q3 with an SJR of 0.313 and an H-index of 89.
Its listed coverage is 1908-2026 and its research categories include Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q3). The 2025 dataset reports 140 documents and 327 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation, Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments, Medical and Biological Sciences.
Recent Research Articles
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When a Pandemic Challenges the Art of Medicine
Zachary M. Harris
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001940Florida Pediatric Gun Safety: Policy Recommendations and Ways Forward
Myron L. Rolle, S. Hassan A. Akbari
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001939Decreased Maternal Weight Gain in Pregnancy Is Seen with Buprenorphine Medication-Assisted Treatment
Kara Weishaar, Nicole Lewis, Olivia Knoll, Lori Moore et al.
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001943Empowering the Community Health Worker Role in the Stroke Continuum of Care: Development of the Florida Stroke Registry CHW Stroke Training Program
Esmeralda Segura, Farya Fakoori, Christina Ampie, Valarie Butler et al.
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001947Promoting Autonomy in Pediatric Trainees: Independent Rounding on a Pediatric Hospital Medicine Service
Kathryn Leyens, Erin Cummings, Eleanor Sharp, Benjamin Miller et al.
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001945Could High Game Volume over a Shorter Season Increase Noncontact Knee Injury Risk among Kentucky High School Girls’ Basketball Players?
John Nyland, Ryan Modlinski, Ryan Krupp
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001942Advancement of a Vertically Integrated Training Program (VITP): Introspective Assessment and Expansion
Logan Hitchcock, Timothy Pitts, Rebecca Stoltz, Allyson Halbach et al.
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001941An Exploration of Alcohol Withdrawal Protocols, with a Focus on the Use of Phenobarbital
Amy Suhotliv, Veronika Blinder, Amira Mohamed, Daniel G. Fein et al.
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001938Distribution of the Georgia Pulmonology Workforce: A Rural-Urban Analysis
Shervin Eskandari, Dev Shah, William E. Long, Natasha M. Savage et al.
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001946Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Positivity in Pregnant Women Living in Areas with High Social Vulnerability Indices
Gweneth B. Lazenby, Jeffrey E. Korte, Ekatrina Pekar, John L. Pearce et al.
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001944Antibody-Drug Conjugates in the Management of Breast Cancer
Sangeetha Isaac, Sameer Batoo
2026-03 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001885Coral Snake Bite
Melanie J. Lippmann
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001926Heart Disease Mortality on the Mississippi River
Tracy-Ann Poyser, Sara Beeharry, Richard F. Gillum
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001932Know Your Guidelines Series: The ACG and AGA Guideline on Management of Constipation
Akhil Adla, Christopher D. Jackson, Shreya Narayanan
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001928Associations between Tobacco Use and Tobacco Cessation Pharmacotherapy on Rehospitalizations
Ellen M. Nielsen, Jingwen Zhang, Justin Marsden, Chloe Bays et al.
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001930Certified Athletic Trainers Are Preferred Coordinators in Sports Medicine Clinics: A Patient Survey Study
Clay Rahaman, Nathaniel Buchanan, Jackson Byrd, Chandler Harris et al.
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001929Burnout and Resilience Domains across Gender and Race/Ethnicity in Health Care: Findings from the University of Utah Health System
Fares Qeadan, Ben Tingey, Abdulkhaliq Barbaar, Erica Rojas et al.
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001936Can Medical Students Learn the Pediatric Musculoskeletal Examination Independently?
Kimberly L. Hays, Natasha M. Ruth, Paul J. Nietert, Lutfiyya N. Muhammad et al.
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001933Training with Artificial Intelligence: Are There Hidden Costs in Clinical Reasoning and Medical Education?
Maya Guhan, Chirayu Shah, Prathit A. Kulkarni
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001927Associations of Source and Continuity of Private Health Insurance with Prevalence of Chronic Pain among US Adults
Carissa Santos, Dmitry Tumin
2026-02 · DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001935Reviews
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