- Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
Infobox Journal
discipline =HIV/AIDS
abbreviation = "J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr", "J AIDS", "JAIDS"
publisher =Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
country =USA
frequency = 15 per year
history = "Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes" (1988–94); "Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology" (1995–99); "Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes" (1999–date)
openaccess = After 12 months
impact = 3.681
impact-year = 2006
website = http://www.jaids.com/pt/re/jaids/home.htm
ISSN = 1525-4135
eISSN = 1077-9450The "Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes" is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the area of
HIV/AIDS . It is currently published byLippincott Williams & Wilkins fromPhiladelphia ,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). [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=nlmcatalog&cmd=retrieve&dopt=expanded&list_uids=425180 NLM Catalog: Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes] (accessed 24 October 2007)] 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. [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=nlmcatalog&cmd=retrieve&dopt=expanded&list_uids=561062 NLM Catalog: Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology] (accessed 24 October 2007)] [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=nlmcatalog&cmd=search&term=%22Journal%20of%20acquired%20immune%20deficiency%20syndromes%20%281999%29%22%5BTITLE%5D%20AND%20Serial%5BItem%20Type%5D%20NOT%209501482%5BNLM%20Unique%20ID%5D NLM Catalog: Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes : JAIDS] (accessed 24 October 2007)] It was originally published by Raven Press.
The journal was an official publication of the
International Retrovirology Association until 2000.Modern journal
Fifteen issues are published annually, in three volumes. Articles from 1996 are available online in
HTML format, withPDF format additionally from 2000. Contents over a year old are available freely from 1999 onwards.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. [ [http://www.jaids.com/pt/re/jaids/journalinfo.htm LWW: JAIDS: Journal Information] (accessed 24 October 2007)] 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).ee also
References
External links
* [http://www.jaids.com/pt/re/jaids/home.htm Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: JAIDS]
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