Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Respirology Language English Publication history 1996-present | Edited by Peter Eastwood | |
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology | ||
Respirology is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. The word respirology is derived from the Latin root respirare, "to breathe" and the Greek root logos, "knowledge". The journal covers clinical respiratory biology and disease, including epidemiology, intensive and critical care medicine, pathology, physiology, thoracic surgery, and general medicine, as it relates to respiratory biology and disease.
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History
The journal was established in March 1996 by the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology as a quarterly edition. It was subsequently adopted by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand as its preferred journal, by the Japanese Respiratory Society and the Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine as their preferred English-language journal and by the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology as an official journal. It gradually increased the number of issues to 8 per year. In 2008, an article processing charge was introduced. In 2015, the journal moved to online-only delivery.
An open-access sister journal named Respirology Case Reports was launched in 2013.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 3.345, ranking it 15th out of 57 journals in the category "Respiratory System".
Editors
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: