Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
Encyclopedia
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, first published in March 1979, is a peer reviewed
, medical journal
, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
. The Editor in Chief is Martin H. Floch, MD (Yale University School of Medicine).
Publishing formats are original articles, review articles, research reports, case reports, letters, meeting reports, and announcements.
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
, medical journal
Medical journal
A public health journal is a scientific journal devoted to the field of public health, including epidemiology, biostatistics, and health care . Public health journals, like most scientific journals, are peer-reviewed...
, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is an academic and professional medical publisher owned by Wolters Kluwer group. It publishes textbooks, various electronic media, and over 275 journals and newsletters in the health-care field. Publications are aimed at physicians, nurses, clinicians, and students...
. The Editor in Chief is Martin H. Floch, MD (Yale University School of Medicine).
Aims and scope
The specific audience of this journal is the clinical practitioner. Coverage of all topics pertaining to gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition is in the context, and perspective, of clinical practice. Related coverage includes therapeutic recommendations, focused organ reviews, biographies, and practice management.Publishing formats are original articles, review articles, research reports, case reports, letters, meeting reports, and announcements.
Abstracting and indexing
This journal is indexed in the following databases:- Science Citation IndexScience Citation IndexThe Science Citation Index is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960, which is now owned by Thomson Reuters. The larger version covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from ...
- Current ContentsCurrent ContentsCurrent Contents is a rapid alerting service database from the Institute for Scientific Information, now part of Thomson Reuters, that is published online and in several different printed subject sections.-History:...
- Clinical Medicine - SciSearch
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-Index MedicusIndex medicusIndex Medicus is a comprehensive index of medical scientific journal articles, published since 1879. It was initiated by John Shaw Billings, head of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army...
and PubMedPubMedPubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...