Thorax,
an international journal from BMJ and BTS, publishes high impact research across all areas of respiratory medicine and critical care
 Impact Factor: 9.139
Citescore: 13.5
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Thorax is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.
Thorax is one of the world's leading respiratory medicine journals, publishing clinical and experimental research articles on respiratory medicine, paediatrics, immunology, pharmacology, pathology, and surgery. Thorax seeks to publish significant advances in scientific understanding, which are likely to impact on clinical practice. This includes articles concerning basic and translational mechanisms with application to clinical material (cell and molecular biology, genetics, epidemiology, and immunology).
Thorax is an official journal of the British Thoracic Society and is a companion to BMJ Open Respiratory Research.
Editors-in-Chief
Professor Nicholas Hart, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Professor Gisli Jenkins, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
Professor Alan Smyth, University of Nottingham, UK
Editorial board
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