European Journal of Radiology

European Journal of Radiology
Title	European Journal of Radiology
Editor	Massimo Caulo
Discipline	Radiology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Radiol.
Publisher	Elsevier
Country	Netherlands
History	1991–present
Frequency	Monthly
Impact	3.4
Impact-year	2020
Issn	0720-048X

European Journal of Radiology is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering clinical and experimental Radiology with emphasis on diagnostic imaging, interventional techniques, and imaging science. The journal publishes original research, reviews, and editorials that inform practice across World Health Organization regions, engaging clinicians from institutions such as Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, and Karolinska University Hospital. As a publication of Elsevier, it links to broader scholarly ecosystems including ScienceDirect, EMBASE, Scopus, PubMed Central, and professional societies like the European Society of Radiology, Royal College of Radiologists, and Radiological Society of North America.

History

The journal was established in 1991 in the Netherlands amid expansion of specialized periodicals during the post-Cold War era that included contemporaries such as The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, and BMJ. Its founding editors sought to bridge clinical practice in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and United Kingdom with research centers in United States, Canada, and Japan. Early editorial boards featured members affiliated with Karolinska Institute, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Milan, and Heidelberg University Hospital. Over subsequent decades the journal evolved alongside technological milestones exemplified by innovations from GE Healthcare, Siemens Healthineers, and Philips Healthcare, and policy developments like those enacted by the European Commission for medical imaging. Key transitions included adoption of online submission systems, integration with CrossRef and ORCID, and editorial leadership changes involving academics from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Radboud University Medical Center.

Scope and Content

Content spans diagnostic modalities such as Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, and Positron Emission Tomography as applied to specialties like Neuroradiology, Musculoskeletal Radiology, Thoracic Surgery, Interventional Cardiology, and Oncology. The journal regularly features comparative studies referencing trials and registries run at Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and multicenter consortia like the European Lung Cancer Screening Trial and International Agency for Research on Cancer. Reviews draw on guidelines developed by bodies including the European Society of Cardiology, European Society for Medical Oncology, and World Federation of Neurology. Methodological articles engage technologies by NVIDIA, algorithms from research labs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and clinical datasets like those curated at National Institutes of Health and European Bioinformatics Institute.

Editorial Structure and Peer Review

The editorial office operates under an Editor-in-Chief with deputy and associate editors drawn from universities such as University of Barcelona, University of Zurich, University of Paris, and KU Leuven. Manuscripts undergo single-blind or double-blind peer review coordinated through platforms similar to those used by Springer Nature and Wiley-Blackwell, with external reviewers appointed from panels including experts linked to Royal Marsden Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, and UCL Hospitals. Ethical oversight aligns with statements from Committee on Publication Ethics, trial registration norms from ClinicalTrials.gov, and reporting checklists from groups like PRISMA and CONSORT. Editorial decisions sometimes involve consultations with statisticians trained at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and imaging physicists affiliated with CERN collaborations in medical imaging research.

Publication and Access

Published monthly by Elsevier from its editorial base in the Netherlands, the journal distributes content through platforms including ScienceDirect and integrates with institutional subscriptions at universities such as Sorbonne University, University of Edinburgh, and Heidelberg University. It offers hybrid access models accommodating open access mandates from funders like the European Research Council and Wellcome Trust. Authors may comply with public-access policies modeled after Plan S and deposit accepted manuscripts in repositories analogous to PubMed Central and institutional archives at University of Toronto and LMU Munich.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is indexed in major bibliographic resources including MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, Web of Science, and specialized services used by clinicians and librarians at New York University, University of Sydney, and McGill University. Abstracting facilitates discovery through identifiers supplied by CrossRef and author disambiguation via ORCID records maintained by scholars at Harvard University and Yale University. Inclusion in citation databases enables benchmarking against titles such as Radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology, and European Radiology.

Impact and Reception

Impact metrics have varied with technological shifts and citation practices, with the journal compared in bibliometric analyses to periodicals like Lancet Oncology and Journal of Clinical Oncology in niche imaging areas. Reception among clinicians and researchers in centers such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Imperial College London, and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin reflects appreciation for clinically oriented reviews and multicenter studies, while critiques have addressed editorial decisions during debates prompted by high-profile reproducibility discussions at NIH and methodological scrutiny influenced by work from Cochrane Collaboration.

Notable Publications and Special Issues

Notable contributions have included multicenter imaging studies on stroke protocols involving collaborators from European Stroke Organization and landmark reviews on oncologic imaging used by European Society for Medical Oncology. Special issues have been guest-edited by experts affiliated with Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and University of Oxford, focusing on themes such as artificial intelligence in imaging, COVID-19 radiology reflecting submissions from WHO-linked researchers, and pediatric imaging protocols developed in concert with UNICEF-associated initiatives.

Category:Radiology journals