Endocrine Connections is a society-owned,[1][2] monthly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal. It covers endocrinology with a focus on basic, clinical, and translational research and reviews in all areas of endocrinology, including papers that deal with non-classical tissues as source or targets of hormones and papers that have relevance to endocrine-related and intersecting disciplines and the wider biomedical community.[3] It is jointly owned by the European Society of Endocrinology[1] and the Society for Endocrinology.[2][4] The editor-in-chief is Adrian Clark (St George's University of London), who succeeded Josef Köhrle[5] in 2021. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.9.[6][7][8] The journal has been published by Bioscientifica since 2012.

Endocrine Connections
DisciplineEndocrinology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byFaisal Ahmed
Publication details
History2012–present
Publisher
FrequencyMonthly
Yes
2.6 (2023)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Endocr. Connect.
Indexing
ISSN2049-3614 (print)
2049-3614 (web)
Links

History

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The journal was established in June 2012 as a joint venture between the European Society of Endocrinology and the Society for Endocrinology, to be published by Bioscientifica and to service the endocrine community as one of the first fully open-access endocrine journals.

The founding editor-in-chief was Jens Sandahl Christiansen (Aarhus University).[9]

The current editor-in-chief is Adrian Clark.[10]

Online access

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All peer-reviewed editorial and review content is free to access from publication.[11] As the journal is fully open-access, all published articles are released under the 'gold' open access option, whereby authors pay an article processing charge upon acceptance to have their article made freely available online immediately upon publication. These articles are automatically deposited into PubMed Central.[11]

The journal's licence policy includes CC BY, CC BY-NC, and CC BY-NC-ND.[11]

Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

References

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  1. ^ a b "Journals | ESE". www.ese-hormones.org. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  2. ^ a b "Publications | Society for Endocrinology". www.endocrinology.org. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  3. ^ "Scope". ec.bioscientifica.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  4. ^ "Journals". Bioscientifica. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Editorial board". eje.bioscientifica.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  6. ^ "European Journal of Endocrinology". 2020 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2021 – via Web of Science.
  7. ^ "News Article | Society for Endocrinology". www.endocrinology.org. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  8. ^ "Impact Factor Collection". ec.bioscientifica.com. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  9. ^ "SfE and ESE announce the launch of Endocrine Connections – a new Open Access biomedical journal". SSP Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  10. ^ "Editorial Board". ec.bioscientifica.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  11. ^ a b c "Open access policy". ec.bioscientifica.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
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