Edited by Paolo Romagnoli | Language English Publication history 1901-present | |
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Ital. J. Anat. Embryol. Publisher Firenze University Press | ||
The Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology (sometimes abbreviated as the IJAE) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of anatomy and embryology. It was established in 1901 by Giulio Chiarugi and is published by Firenze University Press. It is the official journal of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology. The editor-in-chief is Paolo Romagnoli (University of Florence).
AIDS denialist paper controversy
In 2011, the journal published a study by Peter Duesberg and a number of other HIV/AIDS denialists which claimed that HIV did not cause AIDS. A different version of the study had previously been published in the then-non-peer-reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses, but it was later withdrawn from this journal and a peer-review policy was implemented. After Duesberg et al.'s paper was published in the IJAE, one of the journal's editors, Klaudia Brix of Jacobs University Bremen, resigned from the journal's editorial board, saying she felt it was important for the journal to remain focused on its scientific "scope". Heather Young, of the University of Melbourne, also resigned from the journal's editorial board after the Duesberg paper was published in it. John Timmer of Ars Technica argued that the paper was "well outside the journal's normal focus, which is the "anatomy and embryology of vertebrates."" In contrast, Romagnoli defended the journal's decision to publish the paper, saying that it was within the journal's scope because it pertains to “issues related to the biology of pregnancy and prenatal development and with the tissues of the immune system”.