Thorax | One of the world's leading respiratory medicine journals, publishing clinical and experimental research articles.

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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.

Latest content from the British Thoracic Society:
BTS Guideline for the investigation and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma

To celebrate the latest impact factor of 9.655 we have made the top ten cited articles from the past three years free to access. See the list here.

Impact Factor: 9.655

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Thorax accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, state of the art reviews and protocols.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for Thorax.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

Impact Factor: 9.655

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Editor’s Choice

Rehabilitation:

Ventilatory support or respiratory muscle training as adjuncts to exercise in obese CPAP-treated patients with obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised controlled trial

Respiratory epidemiology:

Body mass index status and peripheral airway obstruction in school-age children: a population-based cohort study

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Smoking duration alone provides stronger risk estimates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease than pack-years

Respiratory epidemiology:

A population-based prospective cohort study examining the influence of early-life respiratory tract infections on school-age lung function and asthma

Asthma:

Exacerbation risk and characterisation of the UK’s asthma population from infants to old age

Most Read Articles

Chest clinic:

Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma: a look at the key differences between BTS/SIGN and NICE

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Smoking duration alone provides stronger risk estimates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease than pack-years

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Airway responsiveness to methacholine and incidence of COPD: an international prospective cohort study

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Home treatment of COPD exacerbation selected by DECAF score: a non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Longitudinal profiling of the lung microbiome in the AERIS study demonstrates repeatability of bacterial and eosinophilic COPD exacerbations

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Guidelines in context:

The Fleischner Society 2017 and British Thoracic Society 2015 guidelines for managing pulmonary nodules: keep calm and carry on

Editorial:

Lung cancer CT screening: are we ready to consider screening biennially in a subgroup of low-risk individuals?

Lung cancer:

Lung cancer stage-shift following a symptom awareness campaign

Editorial:

Inspiratory muscle training in COPD: can data finally beat emotion?

Chest clinic:

Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome with a novel genetic variant in HPS1 and subsequent accelerated pulmonary fibrosis: significance for phenocopy diseases

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