About this journal

Aims and scope

The Journal of Inflammation Research is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that welcomes laboratory and clinical findings on the molecular basis, cell biology and pharmacology of inflammation.

Meta-analyses will no longer be considered for publication.

Specific topics covered by the journal include:

  • acute/chronic inflammation
  • mediators of inflammation
  • cellular processes
  • molecular mechanisms
  • neuroimmune mechanisms
  • pharmacology and novel anti-inflammatory drugs
  • clinical conditions involving inflammation

Conditions covered include:

• Asthma and allergy
• Diabetes mellitus
• Heart disease and heart failure
• Skin conditions e.g. dermatitis, psoriasis, and dermatomyositis
• Joint conditions e.g. osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis
• Spondylitis
• Pneumonia
• Neuroinflammation
• Sepsis
• Cancer
• Ulcerative colitis
• Crohn’s disease
• Pancreatitis
• Inflammatory bowel disease

The journal welcomes original research manuscripts, reviews, symposium reports, hypothesis formation, expert opinions and commentaries relating to all aspects of inflammation.

The journal does not consider case reports except in circumstances where they make a valuable contribution to the literature. Protocols of prospective studies need to be accompanied by detailed and original video demonstrations of the proposed research.

When considering submission of a paper utilizing publicly-available data (e.g. SEER/GWAS/TCGA/GEO/Vigibase etc.), authors should ensure that such studies add significantly to the body of knowledge about a specific disease or relevant phenotype and that they are validated using the authors’ own data through replication in an independent sample set and functional follow-up. Bioinformatics studies should also conform to these criteria.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 204K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 4.2 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 4.6 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 6.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.886 (2023) SNIP
  • 1.047 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Ning Quan, (Professor and Investigator), Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Ration, Florida, USA

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Adam Bachstetter, (Professor), Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC), Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky, Kentucky, USA

Subashchandrabose Chinnathambi, (Assistant Professor), Department of Neurochemistry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India

Monika Sharma, (Senior Research Scientist), Gilead Sciences, Foster City, California, USA

Tara Strutt, (Associate Professor), Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, Orlando, Florida, USA

Editorial Board:

Salomon Amar, (Professor), New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA

Alarico Ariani, (Rheumatologist), University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

Mohammadsobhan Sheikh Andalibi (Postdoctoral Research Scholar), Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

Haydee E.P. Bazan, (Professor), Department of Ophthalmology, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

J. Edwin Blalock, (Professor), Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Dr Baiyi Cai, (Senior Scientist), Pathology Department, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA

K. K. Dharmappa, (Associate Professor and Consultant), Mangalore University, Jnana Cauvery Campus, Chikka Aluvara, India

Vinay Kumar, (Research Scientist), Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy, (Associate Professor & (Hon) Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Allergy), Clinical Experimental Sciences, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK

Xiaoyu Liu, (Scientist), Multiple Sclerosis Research Department, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Chaim Putterman, (Professor and Director), Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA; Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel and Research Institute, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel

Sinisa Savic, (Associate Professor), Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Manish Kumar Singh, (Assistant Staff Scientist), Arthritis & Clinical Immunology (ACI), Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

Shibo Sun, (Director), Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

Gary A. Weisman, (Professor), Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA

Zili You, (Professor), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Abstracting and indexing

Journal of Inflammation Research is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:

Current Contents®/Life Sciences

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

EMBASE (Elsevier)

Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition

Pubmed (NLM)

PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)

Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)

Scopus (Elsevier)

Open access

Journal of Inflammation Research is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

To publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis. Discounts and waivers may also be available for researchers in selected countries when publishing in open access journals.

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