''Nature Reviews Disease Primers'' is a

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published by

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. It was established in 2015. The

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is Clemens Thoma. The journal publishes broad

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articles about disease areas, offering a global overview of the field and outlining "key open research questions". Each "Primer" is accompanied by a "PrimeView" summary poster containing accessible artwork and highlighting key points from the review. The journal's five year anniversary was celebrated in April 2020, and noted that 225 primers had been published on medical topics.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 65.038, ranking it 5th out of 172 journals in the category "Medicine General & Internal".

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