International Breastfeeding Journal encompasses all aspects of breastfeeding. The journal addresses the need for a high quality multi-disciplinary journal in the field.
Breastfeeding is recognized as an important public health issue with enormous social and economic implications. Infants who do not receive breast milk are likely to experience poorer health outcomes than breastfed infants; mothers who do not breastfeed increase their own health risks.
In order to help women breastfeed successfully, there is a need to understand both the physiology of lactation and the social and cultural context within which breastfeeding occurs.
The journal addresses all of these aspects, 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.
International Breastfeeding Journal is recruiting Associate Editors. As the growth of the journal continues, we are looking to expand our editorial team. If you are a researcher with experience in breastfeeding research we would love to hear from you.
Please follow the link below to find out more about the role and apply.
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Guest Editors:
Tuan Thanh Nguyen, MD, PhD, Alive & Thrive, Global Nutrition FHI 360, Vietnam
Kelly Pereira Coca, RNM, PhD, IBCLC, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
Tanya Cassidy, PhD, Kathleen Lonsdale Human Health Research Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland
Laura Klein, PhD, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Australia
Submission Status: Open until 19 February 2026
Edited by:
Kris Yuet Wan Lok, RD, PhD, FHEA, University of Hong Kong, China
Rukhsana Haider, MBBS, PhD, IBCLC, FABM, Training and Assistance for Health and Nutrition (TAHN) Foundation, Bangladesh
Siddika Songül Yalçin, MD, PhD, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Sonia Hernandez-Cordero, PhD, Iberoamerican University, Mexico
Tuan Thanh Nguyen, MD, PhD, Alive & Thrive, Global Nutrition FHI 360, Vietnam
Submission Status: Open until 31 July 2025
Edited by:
Lina Palmér, PhD and Associate Professor, University of Borås, Sweden
Jenny Ericson, PhD and Associate Professor, Dalarna University, Sweden
Submission Status: Open until 30 September 2025
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Read MoreProfessor Lisa Amir (MBBS MMed PhD IBCLC) is a general practitioner and has been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 1989. She works in breastfeeding medicine at The Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She is a Principal Research Fellow at the Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University and is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access publication International Breastfeeding Journal.
Citation Impact
Journal Impact Factor: 2.9 (2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.6 (2023)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.312 (2024)
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.989 (2024)
Speed
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 6
Submission to acceptance (median days): 178
Usage 2024
Downloads: 1,144,191
Altmetric mentions: 672
Check out the blog post by Editor-in-Chief Prof Lisa Amir which discusses some recent articles in the Journal and how we can close the gap and provide breastfeeding support for all.
International Breastfeeding Journal