''Gastrointestinal Endoscopy'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering
gastroenterology
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, especially as relating to
endoscopy
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. It is published by
Elsevier
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and the official publication of the
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. The
editor-in-chief
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is Douglas G. Adler, MD, FASGE.
History
The journal was established as the ''Bulletin of the American Gastroscopic Society'', was continued as the ''Bulletin of Gastroscopy and Esophagoscopy'' from 1959 to 1961, then as the ''Bulletin of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy'' until 1965 when it obtained its current name.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
Index Medicus
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MEDLINE
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/
PubMed
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,
Current Contents
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History
''Current Contents ...
/Clinical Medicine,
Current Contents/Life Sciences,
Science Citation Index
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It was created by the Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information, launched in 1964 as Science Citation Index ( ...
,
[ Embase,] and Scopus
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. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2021 impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 10.396.[
]
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