Chinese Clinical Doctor is a national medical and health professional journal under the supervision of the National Health Commission and organised by People's Health Publishing House Co. Founded in 1972, it is a core journal of science and technology in China, and is recognised by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television as a double-performance journal in the ‘China Journal Square’, a camp of high-quality journals. Using grass-roots oriented, practicality and continuing education as its characteristics, the journal provides a suitable learning platform for the majority of medical workers to improve their self-study.
The main columns of the journal include review, monograph, treatise, review and new progress, guideline and consensus, case report, Chinese medicine and combination of Chinese and Western medicine, etc. The journal aims to help clinicians to improve the diagnosis and treatment level of multiple diseases and common diseases, to expand their knowledge, to learn about the information and clinical progress of medicine, and to exchange their experience in preventing and treating diseases.
According to the data of the 2021 edition of China Science and Technology Journal Citation Report, the latest published core impact factor of the journal in 2022 is 1.254, and the extended impact factor is 3.232. Chinese Journal of Clinical Physicians has been awarded the excellence prize (the first prize) of the second and third National Excellent Survey and Mapping Geographic Information Journal Awards, and has been included in many domestic and international databases, such as the American Chemical Abstracts ( CA), United Nations Water Science and Fisheries Abstracts, and China Oceanographic Literature Database.