''Thorax'' is a monthly

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specialising in both clinical and experimental research articles on respiratory medicine as well as

paediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...

immunology Immunology is a branch of medicineImmunology for Medical Students, Roderick Nairn, Matthew Helbert, Mosby, 2007 and biology that covers the medical study of immune systems in humans, animals, plants and sapient species. In such we can see ther ...

pharmacology Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemi ...

pathology Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in ...

, and surgery. It was established in 1946 and is published by the

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on behalf of the British Thoracic Society. The journal is available online by subscription and archived editions of the journal are available free of charge after 1 year. The

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are Professor Jennifer Quint, Imperial College London, UK Professor Mark Griffiths, Imperial College London, UK Professor Cecilia O'Kane, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Abstracting and indexing

''Thorax'' is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/Index Medicus,

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, Current Contents, Excerpta Medica, and

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2018

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of 10.307.

References

External links

*{{Official, http://thorax.bmj.com BMJ Group academic journals Monthly journals Publications established in 1946 English-language journals Pulmonology journals