''Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine'' is a monthly

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that is published by

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History

The journal was established in 1963 as ''Clinical chemistry''/''Klinische Chemie''. In 1991 it was renamed to ''European Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry''. In 1998 it obtained its present name.

Scope

The journal covers developments in fundamental and applied research into science related to clinical laboratories. It covers areas such as

clinical biochemistry Clinical chemistry (also known as chemical pathology, clinical biochemistry or medical biochemistry) is the area of chemistry that is generally concerned with analysis of bodily fluids for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. It is an applied ...

molecular medicine Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological, bioinformatics and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop ...

hematology Hematology ( always spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. It involves treating diseases that affect the produc ...

immunology Immunology is a branch of medicineImmunology for Medical Students, Roderick Nairn, Matthew Helbert, Mosby, 2007 and biology that covers the medical study of immune systems in humans, animals, plants and sapient species. In such we can see there ...

microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...

virology Virology is the Scientific method, scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host (biology), ...

, drug measurement,

genetic epidemiology Genetic epidemiology is the study of the role of genetic factors in determining health and disease in families and in populations, and the interplay of such genetic factors with environmental factors. Genetic epidemiology seeks to derive a statist ...

, evaluation of diagnostic markers, new reagents and systems, reference materials, and reference values. It also publishes recommendations and news from the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine and the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.

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 3.556.

Associated organizations

''Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine'' is the official journal of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM). It is also the official journal of the Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland, the Belgian Society of Clinical Chemistry, the German United Society of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, the Greek Society of Clinical Chemistry-Clinical Biochemistry, the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology, the Slovenian Association for Clinical Chemistry, and the Spanish Society for Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology.

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