The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) is a monthly peer-reviewed biomedical journal in the fields of dietetics and clinical nutrition.[5]
Discipline | Nutrition and dietetics[2] |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Christopher P Duggan[3] |
Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Journal of Clinical Nutrition |
History | 1952–present[4] |
Publisher | |
Frequency | Monthly |
7.045 (2021) | |
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ) | |
ISO 4 | Am. J. Clin. Nutr. |
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
CODEN | AJCNAC |
ISSN | 0002-9165 (print) 1938-3207 (web) |
LCCN | 56032466 |
OCLC no. | 01480127 |
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The journal was established in 1952 as the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, edited by S.O. Waife and published by the Nutrition Press.[6] It was continued in series under the present title from 1954 and was published by the American Society for Clinical Nutrition (ASCN).[7] It is now published by the American Society for Nutrition.[8] The journal's editor-in-chief is Christopher P Duggan[9] of Harvard Medical School.[9]
A poll conducted in 2009 by the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association identified the journal as among the "100 most influential journals ... over the last 100 years" in the fields of biology and medicine.[8] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.045.[10]