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• http://www.nature.com/ijo/
• Editor: Ian Macdonald and Richard Atkinson
• Volume 33: 12 issues per year
• ISSN: 0307-0565
• EISSN: 1476-5497
• Impact factor : 3.64*
• Impact ranking: 9/59 in Nutrition & Dietetics; 31/93 in Endocrinology & Metabolism*
• Date Established: 1977
• Published on behalf of: The International Association for the Study of Obesity

Aims and Scope:
International Journal of Obesity addresses the development and treatment of obesity, and the functional impairments associated with the obese state. The journal is renowned for the rapid publication of cutting-edge articles.

International Journal of Obesity publishes basic science and clinical studies that address the biochemical, epidemiological, genetic, molecular, metabolic, nutritional, physiological, psychological and sociological aspects of obesity. A special section on Pediatric Obesity published quarterly.

Readership: Clinicians and researchers working in obesity, diabetes and related disorders, nutrition, psychology, epidemiology, metabolic function, biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology and genetics.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to January 1997.
• A site license provides access to all content published during the supply period. Access is granted to a further rolling four-year archive during the supply period only. Archive content is freely available after five years.
• Indexed in BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents Clinical Medicine, Current Contents Life Sciences, EMBASE, Medline (PubMed), and SciSearch.

*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009)