''Respirology'' is a

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published by

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on behalf of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. The word ''respirology'' is derived from the Latin root respirare, "to breathe" and the Greek root

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, "knowledge". The journal covers clinical respiratory biology and disease, including

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, intensive and critical care medicine,

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, thoracic surgery, and general medicine, as it relates to

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biology and disease. In 2020, Respirology was included in an expression of concern from

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for excessive self-citation.

History

The journal was established in March 1996 by the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology as a quarterly edition. It was subsequently adopted by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand as its preferred journal, by the Japanese Respiratory Society and the Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine as their preferred English-language journal and by the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology as an official journal. It gradually increased the number of issues to 12 per year. In 2008, an

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was introduced. In 2015, the journal moved to online-only delivery. An

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sister journal named ''Respirology Case Reports'' was launched in 2013.

Controversies

In 2020,

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published an expression of concern on a number of journals with extraordinary self-citation rates. Respirology was highlighted for having articles with an atypically large contribution to journal citation metrics, including one article that cited 53 other ''Respirology'' articles. This particular article with an unusually high number of self-citations was categorized as a 'Year in Review' publication summarizing the latest new studies on the review topic, among which those published in the journal Respirology. The journal reconsidered its policy on this unintended issue avoiding further expressions of concern by Clarivate since then.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the

, the journal has a 2023

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of 6.6, ranking it 12th out of 100 journals in the category "Respiratory System".

Editors

The following persons have been

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of the journal: *1996–2000 Shiro Kira *2001–2008 Phillip Thompson *2008–2010 Gary Lee *2011–2016 Peter Eastwood *2017–2024 Philip Bardin and Paul Reynolds *2025-present Toshiaki Kikuchi and Paul Reynolds

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1440-1843
Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
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