The ''American Journal of Transplantation'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by

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on behalf of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the

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. It covers research on all aspects of

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. Each issue offers continuing medical education in the form of its ''Images in Transplantation'' feature, a case-based approach.

History

The journal was established in 2001 with Philip F. Halloran (

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) as its first

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. In 2010, he was succeeded by Allan D. Kirk ( Duke University). From 2011 to 2015, a shorter,

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-version of the journal was published quarterly, each issue containing five articles originally published in the ''American Journal of Transplantation''. The local editor was Ondrej Viklický (Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague). In 2020, Sandy Feng became the journal's new editor-in-chief.

Supplements

The journal publishes a yearly supplement, the ''Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Annual Data Report'', which is a collection of data about transplant patients. Another annual supplement is the collected abstracts submitted to the American Transplant Congress. A third annual supplement is the ASTS State of the Art Winter Symposium supplement, which is published in January and contains the schedule, abstracts, and other information about the symposium. To date, the journal has published three ''Infectious Diseases Guidelines'' supplements (2004, 2009, and 2013).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 6.493, ranking it second out of 25 journals in the category "Transplantation" and sixth out of 200 journals in the category "Surgery".

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.amjtransplant.com English-language journals Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Publications established in 2001 Monthly journals Organ transplantation journals