The ''American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology'' is a monthly

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

medical journal A medical journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that communicates medical information to physicians, other health professionals. Journals that cover many medical specialties are sometimes called general medical journals. History The first ...

and an official publication of the American Thoracic Society. It covers research on the structure and function of the respiratory system under physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions. It was established in July 1989. The founding editors-in-chief were Jerome S. Brody, Robert M. Senior, and Mary C. Williams. John A. Mcdonald served as editor from 1993 to 1998. Kenneth B. Adler (

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

) served as editor from 2009-2016. Paul Schumacker ( Northwestern University) assumed the editorship on October 1, 2016.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents/Life Sciences, Current Contents/Critical Care Medicine, Embase, Index Medicus/ MEDLINE/ PubMed,

Science Citation Index Expanded The Science Citation Index Expanded – previously entitled Science Citation Index – is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield. It was officially launched in 1964 and ...

, and Scopus. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.748.

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://www.atsjournals.org/journal/ajrcmb/ Publications established in 1989 Pulmonology journals Monthly journals English-language journals Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of the United States