academic publishing Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally publ ...

, a sister journal, mirror journal or companion journal is a newer

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

that is affiliated with an older, better-established journal in the same field.

Examples

*''JAAD Case Reports'' is a sister journal to the ''

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology The ''Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology'', sometimes abbreviated ''JAAD'', is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering dermatology. It was established in 1979 and is published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Academy of ...

'', both published by

Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', th ...

. *''

Translational Psychiatry ''Translational Psychiatry'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Nature Publishing Group. It is a sister journal to the better-known ''Molecular Psychiatry''. While both journals cover the larger field of biological psychiatry, ''Trans ...

'' is a sister journal to ''

Molecular Psychiatry ''Molecular Psychiatry'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group. It covers research in biological psychiatry. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''Journal C ...

''. *In 2001,

BMJ Publishing Group BMJ (branded as BMJ Group until 2013) is a British publisher of medical journals. Established in 1840, the company is owned by the British Medical Association. Publications * 1840: ''Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal'' (later renamed the ...

launched '' BMJ USA'' and the ''

Western Journal of Medicine The ''Western Journal of Medicine'' was a peer-reviewed medical journal. It was established in 1856 as the ''Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California''. It was renamed ''California State Journal of Medicine'' in 1902 and volum ...

'' as sister journals to ''

the BMJ ''The BMJ'' is a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, published by the trade union the British Medical Association (BMA). ''The BMJ'' has editorial freedom from the BMA. It is one of the world's oldest general medical journals. Origi ...

''. *''

Science Translational Medicine ''Science Translational Medicine'' is an interdisciplinary medical journal established in October 2009 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It covers basic, translational, and clinical research on human diseases. According ...

'' is a sister journal to ''

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

''. *As of 1995, ''

Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. ...

'' sister journals included ''

Nature Medicine ''Nature Medicine'' is a monthly Peer review, peer-reviewed medical journal published by Nature Portfolio covering all aspects of medicine. It was established in 1995. The journal seeks to publish research papers that "demonstrate novel insight int ...

'', ''

Nature Structural Biology ''Nature Structural & Molecular Biology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research articles, reviews, news, and commentaries in structural and molecular biology, with an emphasis on papers that further a "functional and me ...

'' and ''

Nature Genetics ''Nature Genetics'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 1992. It covers research in genetics. The chief editor is Tiago Faial. The journal encompasses genetic and functional genomic studi ...

''. *''

Oncogenesis Carcinogenesis, also called oncogenesis or tumorigenesis, is the formation of a cancer, whereby normal cells are transformed into cancer cells. The process is characterized by changes at the cellular, genetic, and epigenetic levels and abnor ...

'' is a sister journal to ''

Oncogene An oncogene is a gene that has the potential to cause cancer. In tumor cells, these genes are often mutated, or expressed at high levels.

''. *''Stem Cells Translational Medicine'' is a sister journal to the

Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...

journal ''

Stem Cells In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can differentiate into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the earliest type o ...

''.

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