The ''Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy'' is a
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
which covers
antimicrobial chemotherapy, including laboratory aspects and clinical use of
antimicrobial
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agents. It is published by
Oxford University Press
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on behalf of the
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) is a UK-based multi-professional organisation with worldwide membership for clinicians and scientists with a specialist interest in antibiotic management and therapy. It is headquartered ...
and was established in 1975. In January 2015 J. Peter Donnelly (
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre The Radboud University Medical Center (Dutch: ''Radboudumc''), is the teaching hospital affiliated with the Radboud University Nijmegen, in the city of Nijmegen in the eastern-central part of the Netherlands
)
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) became the eighth
editor-in-chief
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replacing Alan P. Johnson (
Health Protection Agency
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, London, United Kingdom).
The journal has had two previous publishers.
[ All content is available for free after 12 months while authors also have the option to have their articles published immediately as ]open access
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.
History
The ''Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy'' was founded by David Williams in 1975, who was also its editor for its first six years.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal received a 2017 impact factor
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of 5.217, ranking it 8th out of 88 journals in the category ''Infectious Diseases'',
References
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External links
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British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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