Lung
Last updated ISSN 0341-2040
Lung is published by Springer Science+Business Media in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Lung concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0341-2040, 1432-1750 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 9,904 |
| Publishing since | 1903 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/408 |
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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