''Imaging in Medicine'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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open access
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
. It covers
medical imaging
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,
radiation therapy
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,
radiology
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, and basic imaging and
nuclear medicine
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. The journal was established in 2009 by
Future Medicine
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. It now is published by
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, an
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...
of the
Pulsus Group, which is on
Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable"
predatory open-access publishers
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after being acquired by the
OMICS Publishing Group
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in 2016.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
Chemical Abstracts Service
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Print periodicals
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,
Embase,
and from 2010 to 2014 and 2016 to 2017 in
Scopus
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(discontinued).
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.openaccessjournals.com/journals/imaging-in-medicine.html
Open access journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2009
Pulsus Group academic journals
Radiology and medical imaging journals