Rheumatology (journal)

Not to be confused with Rheumatology: Current Research, published by the OMICS Publishing Group, or Rheumatology (book series), with the ISO 4 abbreviation 'Rheumatology', published by Karger.

Rheumatology

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Discipline	Rheumatology
Language	English
Edited by	Marwan Bukhari
Publisher	Oxford University Press
History	1952-present
Frequency	Monthly
Open access
License
Impact factor	5.245 (2017)
ISSN	1462-0324

Rheumatology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Oxford University Press. It is one of two official journals of the British Society for Rheumatology, the other being Rheumatology Advances in Practice. The journal covers all aspects of paediatric and adult rheumatological conditions. The editor-in-chief is Marwan Bukhari (Royal Lancaster Infirmary).

Article types

The journal publishes the following article types:

• Original articles
• Reviews
• Editorials
• Guidelines
• Concise reports
• Meta-analyses
• Original case reports
• Clinical vignettes
• Letters
• Matters arising from published material

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

• Jaap van Laar (2014-2018)
• Robert J. Moots (2009-2013)
• Richard Watts (2003-2008)
• David Scott (1997-2002)
• H. A. Bird (1991-1997)
• Terry Gibson (1986-1991)
• Rodney Grahame (1982-1986)
• Douglas Woolf (1968-1982)
• P. Hume Kendall (1963-1968)
• A. C. Boyle (1956-1963)
• Hugh Burt (1952-1956)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, ProQuest, MEDLINE/PubMed, and Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 5.245, ranking it 5th out of 32 journals in the category "Rheumatology".

External links

• Official website

• The British Society for Rheumatology