Virchow's archive

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Virchow's archive

description Trade journal
Area of ​​Expertise pathology
language English German)
publishing company Springer ( Germany )
First edition April 6,  1847
Frequency of publication per month
editor Heinz Höfler
Web link www.springer.com/medicine/pathology/journal/428
ISSN (print)
CODEN VARCEM

Virchows Archiv , abbreviated Virchows Arch. , Is one of the oldest medical journals still published today. The main focus of the publications is on research results on human pathology . In addition, works from basic research on disease morphology and articles on the application of new pathological methods or techniques are published. Since 1999 the journal appears as the official organ of the European Society for Pathology. The language of publication is English.

history

Illustration of the cell theory in the first edition of the archive (1847).
Nikanor Chrzonszczewsky's illustration of the alveolar epithelium in Virow's Archives (January 1866, Volume 35).

The journal was founded in 1847 by the then 26-year-old Rudolf Virchow and his friend Benno Reinhardt, who was only a little older than him, as an archive for pathological anatomy and physiology and for clinical medicine . The first edition was published in October 1847 by Georg Reimer . After Reinhardt's early death in 1852, Virchow remained the sole editor until his own death. After Virchow's death, the journal was officially renamed in 1903 with Volume 171 in Virchow's Archives for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and for Clinical Medicine .

In 1920 the magazine was transferred from the Georg Reimer publishing house, which had meanwhile been part of de Gruyter, to Springer . The archive appears here to this day.

In 1968 the journal was divided into a "Department A" and a "Department B": Department A had the additional designation "Pathological Anatomy" until 1973 and then the additional designation "Pathological anatomy and histopathology" while the department that emerged from the Frankfurt Zeitschrift für Pathologie B carried the addition of "cell pathology" until 1978. The addition was later changed to "Cell pathology including molecular pathology". Since 1994, both topics have appeared together again as Virchow's archive . From the late 1960s, articles in English began to appear.

Editor until division in 1968

Editor of Section A

Editor of Section B

Published after the merger in 1994

  • Colin Leonard Berry (1994-2001)
  • Heinz Höfler (since 2001)

The impact factor in 2014 was 2.651. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks 23rd out of 75 journals in the pathology category.

literature

Web links

  • Volume 1 of the archive for pathological anatomy and physiology and for clinical medicine from 1847 in full text ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Dhom: History of Histopathology. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-540-67490-X , p. 370 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ZDB -ID 1626-3
  3. 2014 Journal Citation Reports, Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).