''Current Opinion in Anesthesiology'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering
anaesthesiology
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. It is published by
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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and its inaugural
editors-in-chief
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were Paul G. Barash (
Yale School of Medicine
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) and Hugo Van Aken (
University of Münster
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With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's ...
). The current Editors are Kai Zacharowski (University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany) and Philipp Lirk (Memorial Hermann Hospital and UT McGovern Medical School, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA). According to the ''
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'', the journal has an
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 2.526.
See also
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Current Opinion (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
''Current Opinion'' is a series of medical journals published by Wolters Kluwer imprint Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Wolters Kluwer acquired the journals from the Thomson Organisation
International Thomson Organization (ITO) was a Canadian h ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://journals.lww.com/co-anesthesiology/pages/default.aspx
Anesthesiology and palliative medicine journals
English-language journals
Bimonthly journals
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins academic journals
Academic journals established in 1988