About Thorax

Editor-in-Chief

Wisia Wedzicha
Royal Free and University College Hospital Medical School
London, UK
Email: j.a.wedzicha{at}medsch.ucl.ac.uk

Editor

Sebastian Johnston
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Imperial College, St Mary’s Hospital
London, UK

Editorial Office

BMJ Journals Department
BMA House, Tavistock Square
London, WC1H 9JR, UK

Email: thorax{at}bmjgroup.com

Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6147
Fax +44 (0)20 7388 6668

Frequency

12 times a year plus supplements

Launch date

1946

ISSN Thorax

0040-6376

ISSN Thorax Online

1468-3296

Readership

Includes thoracic physicians, thoracic surgeons, respiratory disease specialists, paediatricians, coronary disease specialists, oncologists, radiologists, public health consultants, occupational health consultants, consultants in emergency medicine and intensive care unit staff.

Print circulation

*This figure does not include our combined print & online, online only or consortia customers

Indexed by

Index Medicus (Medline), ISI Current Contents (Web of Science), Excerpta Medica (Embase)

Impact factor

The impact factor is 7.069 (ISI Web of Science) (2008)

Submitting to Thorax

All papers must be submitted through Bench>Press, our online submission and review system.

Thorax welcomes:
Case reports
Letters - correspondence and research letters
Editorals
Images in thorax
Review articles

Supplementary data for articles and electronic correspondence are available on Thorax Online

Further information is available in the Instructions to Authors and from the Editorial Office

Lead times

Time from submission to first decision: mean 6 weeks
About 45% of submissions are rejected without external peer review
Time from acceptance to publication: 4 months (original papers)

Acceptance rate

14%

Subscriptions

Information on rates and how to subscribe

- Personal print subscribers receive access to Thorax Online at no additional cost
- Personal and institutional subscribers may purchase access to Thorax Online separately
- All subscribers to Thorax receive all supplements (including the Management of Asthma guidelines)
- Subscriptions can start with any issue and refunds are given upon cancellation for outstanding issues
- Non-subscribers may purchase individual articles for US$20

Rights

Authors retain copyright for their own material. However, they must provide Thorax with an exclusive licence to publish.
Corresponding authors are provided with a toll-free link to their published article on Thorax Online.
Authors receive a 10% royalty for any commercial reprint sales in excess of £1000

Permissions

Material may not be reproduced in full or part in any medium or language without prior permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

Please refer to our Copyright and Permission Guidelines

Authors may reproduce their own work in other publications and host on their own website or that of their institution (non-commercial only) without prior permission; we do ask that all material is clearly acknowledged with the original source and a link to the website included where possible

Reprints

Reprints contact details
Reprint Order Form

For commercial reprint sales in excess of £2000, BMJ Journals is pleased to offer authors a 10% royalty of net receipts less any sales commission.
The corresponding author will be contacted automatically should such a sale be secured to determine how the royalty should be paid. The royalty will be offered for up to five years after publication.

Royalties from Reprint Sales

For commercial reprint sales in excess of £2000, BMJ Journals is pleased to offer authors a 10% royalty of net receipts less any sales commission.
The corresponding author will be contacted automatically should such a sale be secured to determine how the royalty should be paid. The royalty will be offered for up to five years after publication.

Supplements

Guidelines for publication of supplements to Thorax and other BMJ Journals

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Email: rsands{at}bmjgroup.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6057

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