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About the Journal

Aims and Scope

Rheumatology is an international peer review journal publishing the highest quality scientific and clinical papers. The scope of Rheumatology includes a range of rheumatological conditions, musculoskeletal medicine, surgery and translational research. Rheumatology aims to provide very rapid publication of all papers both online and in hard copy.

Rheumatology publishes original articles, concise reports, reviews, editorials, guidelines, case reports, clinical vignettes, letters and matters arising from published material.

Rheumatology is the official journal of the British Society for Rheumatology.

IMPACT FACTOR AND RANKING

Year	Impact Factor	Si: Rheumatology
2010	4.171	9 out of 29
2009	4.236	7 out of 26
2008	4.136	7 out of 22
2007	4.045	3 out of 21
2006	4.052	4 out of 23
2005	4.226	4 out of 22
2004	4.102	3 out of 22
2003	3.760	4 out of 21
2002	3.251
2001	3.062
2000	3.949
1999	2.845

This information is taken from the Journal Citation Reports, published annually as part of the Science Citation Index by ISI.

Editor
Professor R Moots

Editorial Office
Rheumatology
Bride House
18-20 Bride Lane
London EC4Y 8EE
Telephone:+44 (0)20 7842 0902
Fax:+44 (0)20 7842 0903
E-mail: editorial@rheumatology.org.uk

Impact Factor
4.236 (2009)

Lead Times
Submission to first decision: Average 27 days
Acceptance to publication: 5–6 weeks

Submitting to Rheumatology
All articles must be submitted through the online submission web site.

Frequency
Monthly plus supplements

Abstracted/Indexed
Abstracts in Anthropology
Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases
AMED
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Biological Abstracts
BIOSIS Previews
Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts
Current Contents® /Clinical Medicine
Derwent Drug File
Elsevier BIOBASE - Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS)
EMBASE
Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
Journal Citation Reports /Science Edition
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PubMed
Reactions Weekly
Review of Medical and Veterinary Mycology
Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®)
Science Citation Index®
The Standard Periodical Directory

Copyright
The copyright is retained by the author. However, it is a condition of publication in Rheumatology that authors grant an exclusive licence to the Journal, which is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology.

Offprints
The Publisher will supply free electronic access to each article. Printed offprints may be ordered at an extra cost at the proof stage.

Subscriptions
Personal and Institutional subscriptions can be purchased online. Members of the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) receive a subscription to Rheumatology as part of their membership. For further information please see the BSR website.

Individual articles can be purchased through pay per view.

Free or greatly reduced access to this journal is available through our Developing Countries Online Collection Offer.

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ISSN
Print: 1462-0324
Online: 1462-0332

COPE
Rheumatology is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.