Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the area of HIV/AIDS. It is currently published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins from Philadelphia, USA. The journal covers all aspects of research in HIV/AIDS, including basic science, clinical science and epidemiology.

History
The journal first appeared in 1988 (ISSN 0894-9255). It was retitled Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology (ISSN 1077-9450) in 1995, returning to the title Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes in 1999. It was originally published by Raven Press.

Modern journal
Fifteen issues are published annually, in three volumes. Articles are available online in PDF and HTML formats; contents over a year old are available freely.

The journal had a 2006 impact factor of 3.681, with a ranking of seventh of 41 journals in the infectious diseases category and 24th of 114 journals in the immunology category. It is indexed by Automated Subject Citation Alert, BIOSIS, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Current Contents (Life Sciences), Excerpta Medica, Medline/Index Medicus, PsycINFO, Science Citation Index and Scisearch.

As of 2007, the Editors-in-Chief are David D. Ho (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, USA), Paul A. Volberding (San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, USA) and William A. Blattner (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA).

External link

 * Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: JAIDS