Journal
Rheumatology is the official journal of the British Society for Rheumatology.

Rheumatology, an independent international peer review journal, publishes the highest quality scientific and clinical papers. The scope of Rheumatology includes the full spectrum of rheumatological conditions, musculoskeletal medicine and surgery, and covers a wide range of topics such as the study of musculoskeletal disease, clinical diagnosis, treatment therapy, immunology and new drug developments. Rheumatology aims to provide very rapid publication of all papers both online and in print.
Rheumatology welcomes submissions as:
- Original full papers or concise reports
- Review articles
- Case reports of outstanding interest or clinical image vignettes
- Editorials
- Historical articles
- Letters – correspondence and research letters
Reasons why YOU should be reading and submitting papers to Rheumatology…
- A leading rheumatology journal
- Independent international Journal with wide readership
- High impact factor: 4.045
- Rapid online publication
- Online submission and peer review
- Accelerated publication for selected papers
- Fast peer review process
- Free online access for developing countries