''Frontiers of Medicine'' is a

peer-review 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 ...

ed online-only

general medical journal A general medical journal is an academic journal dedicated to medicine in general, rather than a specific field of medicine. History The first English-language general medical journal was '' Medicina Curiosa'', which was established in 1684 and ce ...

published jointly by the Chinese

Higher Education Press Higher Education Press (HEP) is a publisher in China of university and college-level textbooks, owned by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The company's headquarters is in Beijing. HEP was among the world Top 50 publishers ...

and

Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ...

. It was established in 2007 as ''Frontiers of Medicine in China'', obtaining its current name in 2011. The

editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

are S. Chen (

Ruijin Hospital Ruijin Hospital () is a renowned general hospital in Shanghai, China, with the rating of "Grade 3, Class A", the highest rating in the Chinese medical system. It is a university hospital affiliated to School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universi ...

), B. Yang (

Harbin Medical University Harbin Medical University (HMU) () is a public university located in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. HMU is appointed as a national education and training base for biomedical scientists and teaching talents by the National Bureau of Advanced Healt ...

), and X. Chen (

Tongji Medical College Tongji Medical College (TJMC, ) is a medical school in Wuhan, China. Formerly Tongji Medical University (), it became part of the newly established Huazhong University of Science and Technology ( HUST) in 2000. More than 10 graduates of the m ...

). According to the ''

Journal Citation Reports ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collect ...

'', the journal has a 2016

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 1.634.

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