 It was renamed to "Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine" in 1907, following the merger that led to the formation of the Royal Society of Medicine and with volume numbering restarting at 1, before obtaining its current name in 1978.The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed, Science Citation Index, EMBASE, CAB International, and BIOBASE.According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 2.118.