''The Journal of Urology'' is a
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering
urology
Urology (from Greek οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and '' -logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary-tract system and the reproductive org ...
published by
Elsevier
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on behalf of the
American Urological Association
The American Urological Association (AUA) is a professional association in the United States for urology professionals. It has its headquarters at the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History in Maryland.
AUA works with many international o ...
. It was established in 1917. A special centenary issue was released in 2017 to celebrate 100 years of the publication of the journal.
Over the years, it absorbed the ''Transactions of the American Urological Association'' (1907–1920), as well as ''Investigative Urology'' (1963–1981) and ''Urological Survey'' (1951–1981). ''Urological Survey'' was known as ''Quarterly Review of Urology'' from 1946 to 1950.
Editors
The following persons have been
editor-in-chief
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of the journal:
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
BIOSIS
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,
Current Contents
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History
''Cur ...
/Clinical Medicine,
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica,
MEDLINE
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, and
Scopus
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.
References
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Publications established in 1917
Elsevier academic journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Urology journals
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