Virchows Archiv

Virchows Archiv  
Former name
 Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
 Virchows Arch
Discipline Medicine (Pathology)
Peer-reviewed Yes
Language English (originally in German)
Edited by Fred T. Bosman
Publication details
Publisher
Springer (on behalf of the European Society of Pathology) (Germany)
Publication history
 1847–present
Frequency Monthly
No
2.560
Indexing
ISSN 0945-6317 (print)
1432-2307 (web)
LCCN 94038299
CODEN VARCEM
OCLC no. 1645130
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Virchows Archiv (subtitle The European Journal of Pathology) is a journal of pathology published in Germany, and is an official publication of the European Society of Pathology. It publishes fundamental morphological research on diseases, particularly related to human pathology.[1] It was started by Rudolf Virchow with his friend Benno Ernst Heinrich Reinhardt in 1847, which they titled Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin. After Virchow's death, it was renamed after him. The European Society of Pathology adopted it as its official journal in 1999, so that its final name became Virchows Archiv: The European Journal of Pathology.[2]

Origin and history

In 1846, Rudolf Virchow earned his medical license, and succeeded Robert Froriep as Prosector at the Charité Hospital in Berlin.[3] By the next year in 1847 he was appointed an academic position with the rank of privatdozent. However, he soon found that his technical manuscripts were constantly rejected by medical journals. In protest he founded a new journal, then named Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin (Archives of Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and of Clinical Medicine), which he edited with his colleague Benno Ernst Heinrich Reinhardt.[4][5][6] He declared that the aim of the journal was to unite the branches of clinical medicine, pathological anatomy and physiology.[7][8] The first issue was published in February 1847, and contained only four articles – two by Virchow, one by Reinhardt, and one by Rud Leubuscher – and written entirely in German.[9] After Reinhardt death in 1852, Virchow continue to edit until his own death in 1902.[10]

After Virchow's death, the editors decided to him and the journal became Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin in 1903. The first English text appeared in 1960,[11] and from that point onward English articles were frequently included. With the expanding field of pathology, it was decided in 1968 to divide the journal into two sections, namely part A dedicated to Pathologische Anatomie und Histologie and part B for Zellpathologie, later changed into Pathological Anatomy and Histology and Cell Pathology respectively, as the publication became internationally oriented. Its entire publication language became English by the late 1970s, and the long German name of the journal itself was deleted. In 1994 the sister journals part A and B were merged with a new subtitle An International Journal of Pathology. The European Society of Pathology adopted it as its official journal in 1999. In 2009 the society changed the subtitle to The European Journal of Pathology.[2]

Mission

Virchows Archiv aims "To advance the scientific basis of human pathology by the publication (encouragement and dissemination) of high quality research (including molecular and translational studies) and thereby contribute to patient care."[12][2]

Indexing

Virchows Archiv is indexed in Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed/Medline, SCOPUS, EMBASE, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Google Scholar, EBSCO, CSA, CAB International, Academic OneFile, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, CSA Environmental Sciences, Current Contents/Life Sciences, Elsevier Biobase, Gale, Global Health, OCLC, SCImago, and Summon by ProQuest.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Virchows Archiv". Springer. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bosman, Fred T. (2012). "Virchows Archiv: Quo vadis?". Virchows Archiv 460 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1007/s00428-011-1176-9.
  3. ↑ Krietsch, P (1991). "The history of the prosector's department of the Charité Berlin. 3. Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, prosector of Charité, 1846 to 1849". Zentralblatt fur Pathologie (in German) 137 (6): 531–541. PMID 1805933.
  4. ↑ Newerla, Gerhard J. (1939). "Benno Reinhardt, 1819–1852 — A Biographical Study and a Contribution to the Early History of Virchows Archiv". The New England Journal of Medicine 221 (11): 419–423. doi:10.1056/NEJM193909142211104.
  5. ↑ Krietsch, P (1986). "On the history of the Pathology Museum at the Charité in Berlin". Zentralblatt fur allgemeine Pathologie u. pathologische Anatomie (in German) 131 (2): 145–152. PMID 3521143.
  6. ↑ Brown, TM; Fee, E (2006). "Rudolf Carl Virchow: medical scientist, social reformer, role model". American Journal of Public Health 96 (12): 2104–2105. doi:10.2105/ajph.2005.078436. PMC 1698150. PMID 17077410.
  7. ↑ "Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow". Whonamedit?. Ole Daniel Enersen. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow". Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "Virchows Archiv: Volume 1, Issue 1, 1847". Springer. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  10. ↑ Weller, Carl Vernon (1921). "Rudolf Virchow--Pathologist". The Scientific Monthly 13 (1): 33–39. JSTOR 6580.
  11. ↑ Majno, G.; Gattuta, Monika; Thompson, T. E. (1960). "Cellular death and necrosis: Chemical, physical and morphologic changes in rat liver". Virchows Archiv fur Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fur klinische Medizin 333 (5): 421–465. doi:10.1007/BF00955327.
  12. ↑ "Aims and Scope". Springer. Retrieved 30 January 2015.

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