The ''International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology'' is a bimonthly

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. It covers

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and

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. The

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is D.E. Furst (

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). The journal was established in 2006 by Future Medicine under the title ''Future Rheumatology''. It became ''International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology'' in 2009 and is now published by

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of the

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, which is on

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after being acquired by the

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in 2016.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal was abstracted and indexed in

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References

External links

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