Journal of Medical Economics

The Journal of Medical Economics is an international, MEDLINE-indexed open access journal published by Taylor & Francis, founded in 1998, serving the pharmacoeconomics and healthcare research community, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.1（Journal of Medical Economics）是由（Taylor & Francis）出版的国际开放获取期刊，被（MEDLINE）收录，1998 年创办，服务于药物经济学与医疗保健研究界，2025 年影响因子为 3.1。

Scope

• Publishes economic analyses such as cost minimisation, cost effectiveness, cost utility, cost benefit, cost consequence, cost of illness and burden of disease发表成本最小化、成本效果、成本效用、成本效益、成本后果、疾病成本与疾病负担等经济学分析。
• Covers health economics methodology and discussions of policy issues涵盖卫生经济学方法学以及对政策议题的讨论。
• Includes resource utilisation studies and disease management包括资源利用研究与疾病管理。
• Features modelling studies包含建模研究。
• Publishes meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials together with studies measuring therapeutic and preventative outcomes发表随机对照试验的荟萃分析，以及衡量治疗与预防结局的研究。

History

• Founded in 1998该刊于 1998 年创办。
• It is published by Taylor & Francis, trading as Informa UK Limited该刊由（Taylor & Francis）出版，其运营主体为（Informa UK Limited）。
• It is a fully open access journal that publishes only open access articles该刊为完全开放获取期刊，仅发表开放获取文章。
• It appears monthly and had a 2025 impact factor of 3.1该刊为月刊，2025 年影响因子为 3.1。

Editors

• The editors-in-chief are Kenneth K. C. Lee of Taylor's University in Malaysia and Ivo Abraham of the University of Arizona in the USA现任主编为（Taylor's University）的 Kenneth K. C. Lee 与（University of Arizona）的 Ivo Abraham。
• Kenneth Lee has served as editor-in-chief since 2006 and works on comparative effectiveness research and health technology assessmentKenneth Lee 自 2006 年起担任主编，研究领域为比较效果研究与卫生技术评估。
• The editorial board is international, with members from the United Kingdom, the USA, Malaysia, Italy, Spain, Canada, France, Sweden and Jordan编委会为国际化团队，成员来自英国、美国、马来西亚、意大利、西班牙、加拿大、法国、瑞典与约旦。
• Manuscripts are peer reviewed in a single-anonymised fashion稿件以单盲方式实行同行评审。