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• http://www.nature.com/nrrheum
• Editor: Peter E. Lipsky, MD
• Volume 5: 12 issues per year
• ISSN: 1759-4790
• EISSN: 1759-4804
• Impact factor : 5.677*
• Impact ranking: 3/22 in Rheumatology*
• Date Established: November 2005*

No. 1 monthly review journal in Rheumatology

Aims and Scope:
Nature Reviews Rheumatology is a peer-reviewed journal for rheumatologists and affiliated health-care professionals. The journal delivers timely interpretations of key scientific developments in rheumatology and related areas of study.

Nature Reviews Rheumatology is published monthly in print and online and includes commissioned news, commentary and opinion pieces, comprehensive reviews, and in-depth case studies. Articles are subject to rigorous peer-review and/or review by in-house editors.

Topics covered include prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the joints, muscle, bones, blood vessels, and connective tissue, including systemic autoimmune disease, inflammatory and degenerative diseases of joints, regional musculoskeletal disorders, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, pain management, imaging, immunology, genetics, clinical trials, epidemiology and clinical outcomes.

Readership:
Academics, clinicians, researchers (students, post-doctoral researchers and senior scientists) and other health-care professionals interested in arthritis and related disorders of the musculoskeletal system, including physical and occupational therapists and specialists in general internal medicine, as well as commercial and government organizations involved in drug development and clinical trials.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to November 2005.
• 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 not included in the license agreement is available to purchase.
• Indexed in CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE, Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus/MEDLINE, ISI web of knowledge (Science Citation Index Expanded) and PubMed.

*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009). Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology will continue to receive impact factors until June 2012. Nature Reviews Rheumatology will receive its first impact factor in June 2011; the values will be 'unified' for publication in 2011 and 2012.