Alcohol and Alcoholism

Alcohol and Alcoholism is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering alcoholism and other health effects of alcohol. It was established in 1963 as the Bulletin on Alcoholism, with H.D. Chalke as the founding editor.^[1] In 1968, it was renamed the Journal of Alcoholism, and in 1977, it was again renamed, this time to British Journal on Alcohol and Alcoholism. In 1983, it obtained its current name. It is co-owned and co-published by the Medical Council on Alcohol (MCA) along with Oxford University Press, which bought a 50% stake in the journal in 2011.^[2] It is the official journal of both the MCA and the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. The editors-in-chief are Jonathan D. Chick (Castle Craig Hospital) and Lorenzo Leggio (Bethesda, MD, USA). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.826.^[3]

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Discipline	Addiction medicine.
Language	English
Edited by	Jonathan D. Chick and Lorenzo Leggio
Publication details
Former name(s)	Bulletin on Alcoholism, Journal of Alcoholism, British Journal on Alcohol and Alcoholism
History	1963–present
Publisher	Oxford University Press and the Medical Council on Alcohol
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	2.826 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Alcohol Alcohol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	ALALDD
ISSN	0735-0414 (print) 1464-3502 (web)
LCCN	83644732
OCLC no.	817791753
Links
Journal homepage Online access

References

1. Thomson, Allan D. "The Journal Evolves". British Journal on Alcohol and Alcoholism. 17 (4): 125–127.
2. "Oxford University Press and Medical Council on Alcohol announce long-term partnership" (Press release). 24 January 2012.
3. "Alcohol and Alcoholism". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2021.

External links

• Official website