The ''Journal of Extracellular Vesicles'' is a

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covering research on

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-delimited particles known as

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(EVs). EVs are released from

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and include endosome-origin exosomes and plasma membrane-derived ectosomes/microvesicles. The journal is helmed by

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Jan Lötvall (

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) and is published by

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on behalf of the

International Society for Extracellular Vesicles The International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) is an international scientific organization that focuses on the study of extracellular vesicles (EV), including exosomes, microvesicles, oncosomes, and other membrane-bound particles th ...

(ISEV). It was established in 2012. Until August 2019, the editors-in-chief were Clotilde Théry (

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), Yong Song Gho (

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), and Peter Quesenberry (

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). They were succeeded by Jan Lötvall (

Scope

The journal considers research articles as well as review articles, short communications, technical notes, hypotheses, position papers, editorials, and letters to the editor. The journal has published the current consensus guidelines for the field, the ''Minimal Information for Studies of EVs'' (MISEV2018), building on minimal criteria published in 2014.

Notable articles

The journal has published numerous influential articles, some of which were summarized in an editorial in 2019 by the then-outgoing editors-in-chief. *The current consensus guidelines for the EV field, the ''Minimal Information for Studies of EVs'', were prepared with input from almost 400 co-authors and co-coordinated by Clotilde Théry and

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. *The precursor to MISEV2018 was published in 2014 as Lötvall, et al, by members of the ISEV Board of Directors. *A comprehensive review article on EVs was published in 2015 by María Yáñez-Mó, Pia Siljander, and colleagues. *The first position paper of ISEV was published in 2013, following a workshop on

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and EVs that was held in

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in October 2012. *A position paper on therapeutic applications of EVs was published in 2015. *Considerations for studies of RNA and EVs were recommended in 2017 following a Workshop in

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*During the

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pandemic, ISEV and the International Society for Gene and Cell Therapy released a statement on EV therapies for COVID-19.

History

The journal was established soon after the founding of ISEV, in April 2012, and was published by Co-Action Publishing for more than four years.

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acquired Co-Action in late 2016 and published the journal until October 2020. In September 2020, ISEV announced that Wiley would be the new publisher of the journal.

Abstracting and indexing

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

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 25.841.

References

External links

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