''Endocrine Connections'' is a society-owned, monthly,

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. It covers

endocrinology Endocrinology (from '' endocrine'' + '' -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the integration of developmental event ...

with a focus on

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, clinical and

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research and reviews in all areas of endocrinology, including papers that deal with non-classical tissues as source or targets of

hormones A hormone (from the Ancient Greek, Greek participle , "setting in motion") is a class of cell signaling, signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and beh ...

and endocrine papers that have relevance to endocrine-related and intersecting disciplines and the wider biomedical community. It is jointly owned by the

European Society of Endocrinology The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) is a scientific society to promote for the public benefit research, education and clinical practice in endocrinology by the organisation of conferences, training courses and publications, by raising pu ...

and the Society for Endocrinology. The

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is Professor Adrian Clark
Honorary Professor of Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry; Emeritus Professor of Endocrinology, St George’s University of London, UK
, who succeeded Professor Josef Köhrle
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
in 2021. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 3.335. The journal has been published by

Bioscientifica Established in 1996, Bioscientifica Ltd is the commercial subsidiary of the Society for Endocrinology, and provides publishing, events, and association management services to biomedical societies, and to the pharmaceutical industry. Although the ...

since 2012.

History

''Endocrine Connections'' was established in June 2012 as a joint venture between ESE and the Society for Endocrinology, to be published by Bioscientifica and to service the endocrine community as one of the first fully open-access endocrine journals. The founding

was Dr Jens Sandahl Christiansen, Professor of Medicine at the

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. ''Endocrine Connections'' key aim is to offer authors rapid, wide exposure for their work to the global scientific community as publishing

enables critical research discoveries to be free to anyone and everyone. The journal was accepted into PubMed Central in May 2013, highlighting a major milestone in the journals development. The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor Josef Köhrle who stepped up from his role as Senior Editor in 2016. Josef Köhrle had been on the Editorial Board of the journal since its inception. ''Endocrine Connections'' received its first

Impact Factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ...

of 2.541 in 2017 and in 2020 received its highest Impact Factor of 3.335

Online access

All peer-reviewed editorial and review content is free to access from publication. As the journal is fully open-access, all published articles are released under the ‘gold’

option, whereby authors pay an article publishing charge upon acceptance to have their article made freely available online immediately upon publication. These articles are automatically deposited into PubMed Central. ''Endocrine Connections'' licence policy includes CC BY, CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND.

Abstracting and indexing

''Endocrine Connections'' is indexed in:

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References

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