About the Journal
Editor-in-Chief
Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS, Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, MD, USA Read more...
ISSN-print: 1923-4155 | ISSN-online: 1923-4163 | Monthly | Open Access | Aims and Scope
Indexed and covered by: PubMed; PubMed Central; Scopus; Web of Science (ESCI), JournalTOCs; Worldcat; Google Scholar; EBSCO
Scopus CiteScore (2024): 1.5; JCR Impact Factor (2024): 0.9
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