''Virchows Archiv: European Journal of Pathology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal of all aspects of

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, especially human pathology. It is published by

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and an official publication of the European Society of Pathology. It was established in 1847 by

Rudolf Virchow Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (; or ; 13 October 18215 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder ...

and his friend

Benno Reinhardt Benno Ernst Heinrich Reinhardt (14 May 1819 – 11 March 1852) was a German physician who worked as prosector at Charité hospital in Berlin. He is known for his contributions to pathology, especially as co-founder of the journal ''Virchows Archiv ...

as the ''Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin''. After Virchow's death, it was renamed after him to ''Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin''. The European Society of Pathology adopted it as its official journal in 1999, so that its current name became ''Virchows Archiv: European Journal of Pathology''.

Origin and history

In 1846, Rudolf Virchow earned his medical license, and succeeded

Robert Froriep Robert Friedrich Froriep (2 February 1804 – 15 June 1861) was a German anatomist who was a native of Jena. He was the father of anatomist August von Froriep (1849–1917). He studied medicine in Bonn, and later became prosector and conservator ...

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at the Charité Hospital in

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. In 1847 he became " privatdozent". However, he soon found that his technical manuscripts were constantly rejected by medical journals. In protest he established a new journal, then named ''Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin'' (''Archives of Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and of Clinical Medicine''), which he edited with his colleague

. He declared that the aim of the journal was to unite the branches of

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, pathological anatomy, and

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. The first issue was published in February 1847 and contained only four articles – two by Virchow, one by Reinhardt, and one by Rud Leubuscher – and written entirely in German. After Reinhardt's death in 1852, Virchow continued to edit the journal until his own death in 1902. After Virchow's death, the editors decided to honor him and the journal became ''Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin'' in 1903. The first English text appeared in 1960, and from that point onward English articles were frequently included. With the expanding field of pathology, it was decided in 1968 to divide the journal into two sections, namely part A dedicated to ''Pathologische Anatomie und Histologie'' and part B for ''Zellpathologie'', later changed into ''Pathological Anatomy and Histology'' and ''Cell Pathology'' respectively, as the publication became more internationally oriented. Its entire publication language became English by the late 1970s, and the long German name of the journal itself was deleted. In 1994 the sister journals part A and B were merged with a new subtitle ''An International Journal of Pathology''. The European Society of Pathology adopted it as its official journal in 1999. In 2009 the society changed the subtitle to ''The European Journal of Pathology''.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

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, Embase,

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, EBSCO databases,

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, Academic OneFile,

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, CAB Abstracts, CSA Environmental Sciences,

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/Life Sciences, and

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 2.848.

References

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