Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by De Gruyter.

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Discipline	Clinical chemistry, laboratory medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Mario Plebani
Publication details
Former name(s)	Klinische Chemie, European Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry
History	1963-present
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	6.8 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Clin. Chem. Lab. Med.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	CCLMFW
ISSN	1434-6621 (print) 1437-4331 (web)
OCLC no.	475036853
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

History

The journal was established in 1963 as Clinical Chemistry/Klinische Chemie. In 1991 it was renamed to European Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry. In 1998 it obtained its present name.^[1]

Scope

The journal covers developments in fundamental and applied research into science related to clinical laboratories. It covers areas such as clinical biochemistry, molecular medicine, hematology, immunology, microbiology, virology, drug measurement, genetic epidemiology, evaluation of diagnostic markers, new reagents and systems, reference materials, and reference values. It also publishes recommendations and news from the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine and the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• CAB Abstracts
• Global Health
• Academic Search
• TOC Premier
• Elsevier BIOBASE
• Embase
• Scopus
• MEDLINE/PubMed
• ProQuest databases
• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• Current Contents/Life Sciences
• Science Citation Index Expanded

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 6.8.^[3]

Associated organizations

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is the official journal of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM). It is also the official journal of the Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland, the Belgian Society of Clinical Chemistry, the German United Society of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, the Greek Society of Clinical Chemistry-Clinical Biochemistry, the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology, the Slovenian Association for Clinical Chemistry, and the Spanish Society for Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology.^[4]