The British Journal of Radiology

The British Journal of Radiology
DisciplineRadiology
LanguageEnglish
Edited bySimon Jackson, Andrew Nisbet
Publication details
Former name(s)
Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy; Archives of the Roentgen Ray
History1896-present
Publisher
FrequencyMonthly
Hybrid
3.629 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Br. J. Radiol.
Indexing
CODENBJRAAP
ISSN0007-1285 (print)
1748-880X (web)
LCCN49040049
OCLC no.655274246
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The British Journal of Radiology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering radiology.[1] It is published by the British Institute of Radiology and the editors-in-chief are Simon Jackson (University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust) and Andrew Nisbet (University College London). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.629.[2]

History

The journal's forerunner, the Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy was established by Sydney Domville Rowland in May 1896.[3][4] In July 1897 it was renamed the Archives of the Roentgen Ray and reported that it would keep a "record [of] the proceedings of the recently formed Roentgen Society, and will consist of original communications, notes, and correspondence ... (and) offers itself, not merely as a journal of the new photography, but to some extent as the exponent of an important discovery".[1] It was published quarterly and was the only journal which reported the transactions of the roentgen Society.[1]

In 1904, John Hall-Edwards became editor and in 1924, after 24 volumes, the journal was renamed The British Journal of Radiology (Roentgen Society Section) The Journal of the Roentgen Society, after a period of being Archives of Radiology and Electrotherapy and The Journal of the British Association of Radiology and Physiotherapy.[1]

In 1928 the British Institute of Radiology and the Roentgen Society combined to form The British Journal of Radiology.[1] Later, supplements were added and the journal became online from 2001.[1] Old editions have been digitised.[1]

Notable articles

The journal published important works on the development of CT scan and MRI imaging techniques. For example:

  • G. N. Hounsfield, Computerized Transverse Axial Scanning (Tomography): Part 1. Description of System, Br. J. Radiol. 46, 1016 (1973).
  • P. Mansfield and A. A. Maudsley, Medical Imaging by NMR, Br. J. Radiol. 50, 188 (1977).

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Thomas, Adrian (1 January 2020). "125 years of radiological research-BJR's history is radiology's history". British Journal of Radiology. 93 (1105): 20209002. doi:10.1259/bjr.20209002. ISSN 1748-880X. PMID 31833807. S2CID 209340373.
  2. ^ "British Journal of Radiology". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2022.
  3. ^ Thomas, Adrian M. K.; Banerjee, Arpan K. (2013). "2. Early radiology". The History of Radiology. Oxford University Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-19-963997-7.
  4. ^ Mould, Richard F. (2017). "Sydney Rowland (1872–1917) World's first editor of an X-ray journal, 1896". Nowotwory. Journal of Oncology. 67 (5): 316–320. doi:10.5603/NJO.2017.0053. ISSN 2300-2115.

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