Multiple Sclerosis Journal

The Multiple Sclerosis Journal (formerly Multiple Sclerosis) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the clinical neurology of multiple sclerosis. The editor-in-chief is Alan J Thompson (University College London). It was established in 1995 and is published by SAGE Publications.^[1]

Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Discipline	Multiple sclerosis
Language	English
Edited by	Alan J Thompson
Publication details
Former name(s)	Multiple Sclerosis
History	1995-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	5.855 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Mult. Scler. J.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	MUSCFZ
ISSN	1352-4585 (print) 1477-0970 (web)
LCCN	96039038
OCLC no.	39932110
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS
• Current Contents
• EMBASE
• Excerpta Medica
• Elsevier BIOBASE
• Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
• EMBASE
• Excerpta Medica
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2021 impact factor is 5.855, ranking it 40 out of 212 journals in the category "Clinical Neurology".^[2]

History

The journal was first established in 1995 with Ingrid Allen (Queen's University Belfast) as founding editor.^[3] Four issues appeared in 1995, eight in 1996, and from 1997 seven or eight issues appeared each year until 2006.^[4] In 2007 there were nine issues and in 2009, the current monthly publication was established. Donald Silverberg took over the editorship of the journal. He retired in 2006 and was succeeded by Alan J Thompson.^[5]