American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Last updated ISSN 1073-449X
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is published by American Thoracic Society in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
Key facts
| Publisher | American Thoracic Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1073-449X, 1535-4970 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 35,660 |
| Publishing since | 1820 |
| Journal website | www.atsjournals.org/journal/ajrccm |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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