''Rheumatology'' is a monthly

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published by

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. It is one of two official journals of the British Society for Rheumatology, the other being '' Rheumatology Advances in Practice''. The journal covers all aspects of paediatric and adult

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conditions. The

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is Marwan Bukhari ( Royal Lancaster Infirmary).

Article types

The journal publishes the following article types: * Original articles * Reviews * Editorials * Guidelines * Concise reports * Meta-analyses * Original case reports * Clinical vignettes * Letters * Matters arising from published material

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editors-in-chief: * Jaap van Laar (2014-2018) * Robert J. Moots (2009-2013) * Richard Watts (2003-2008) * David Scott (1997-2002) * H. A. Bird (1991-1997) * Terry Gibson (1986-1991) * Rodney Grahame (1982-1986) * Douglas Woolf (1968-1982) * P. Hume Kendall (1963-1968) * A. C. Boyle (1956-1963) * Hugh Burt (1952-1956)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica,

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, and

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. According to the ''

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'', its 2020

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is 7.580, ranking it 5th out of 32 journals in the category "Rheumatology".

External links

*{{Official website, http://rheumatology.oupjournals.org/
The British Society for Rheumatology
Oxford University Press academic journals Monthly journals English-language journals Publications established in 1952 Rheumatology journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies