Sleep Medicine Reviews

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Title	Sleep Medicine Reviews
Discipline	Sleep medicine
Abbreviation	SMR
Publisher	Elsevier
Country	United Kingdom
Frequency	Monthly
History	1997–present
Impact	16.2
Impact-year	2024
Issn	1087-0792

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Sleep Medicine Reviews is a peer-reviewed medical journal publishing invited and unsolicited review articles on clinical and translational topics in sleep health, sleep disorders, and sleep physiology. The journal serves clinicians, researchers, and policymakers by synthesizing evidence across neurology, pulmonology, psychiatry, endocrinology, cardiology, and pediatrics. It is indexed and cited by multiple bibliographic services and is associated with professional societies and academic institutions globally.

Overview

Sleep Medicine Reviews addresses intersections among Royal Society of Medicine, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, European Sleep Research Society, World Health Organization, and National Institutes of Health initiatives by providing comprehensive reviews that inform practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. Articles regularly engage with work from investigators at Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, University of Oxford, and Karolinska Institutet, and draw on trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, consortia such as the Sleep Research Society, and networks linked to European Respiratory Society. The journal’s readership includes clinicians from Massachusetts General Hospital, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, and public health officials at ministries and agencies like Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

History and Development

Launched in the late 1990s amid growing interest in sleep-disordered breathing and circadian biology, the journal's development parallels landmark studies and institutions such as National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, American Thoracic Society, and research programs at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Editorial leadership has included scholars affiliated with University College London, University of California, San Francisco, Imperial College London, and Johns Hopkins University. The journal has chronicled pivotal reports and consensus statements issued by bodies like European Academy of Neurology, American Psychiatric Association, and regulatory milestones involving agencies such as Food and Drug Administration. Major thematic expansions coincided with initiatives by Human Genome Project-era centers, collaborations with networks like International Headache Society, and landmark guideline syntheses similar to those published by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Scope and Content

Content spans reviews on obstructive sleep apnea drawing on landmark trials from centers such as Mayo Clinic, cardiovascular outcome studies linked to Framingham Heart Study, neurodegenerative disease connections exemplified by work at Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers, and pediatric sleep disorders researched at Boston Children’s Hospital. The journal covers chronobiology topics tied to discoveries from Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, pharmacotherapy discussions influenced by approvals from the European Medicines Agency, and public health implications referenced in reports by World Health Organization and United Nations. Review articles often reference cohort studies like the Nurses' Health Study, population databases such as UK Biobank, and multicenter trials coordinated through consortia including Global Burden of Disease. Special issues have highlighted intersections with occupational medicine involving institutions like International Labour Organization and aerospace medicine studies from NASA.

Editorial Structure and Peer Review

The editorial board typically comprises editors and associate editors who hold positions at universities and hospitals, including Yale School of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Cleveland Clinic. The peer-review process engages external reviewers from organizations such as American Board of Sleep Medicine, European Sleep Research Society, and research centers at University of Toronto and McGill University Health Centre. Editorial policies reflect standards promoted by groups like Committee on Publication Ethics and indexing expectations of databases including PubMed Central, Scopus, and Web of Science. Guest editors from institutions such as King's College London and University of Sydney have overseen themed collections drawing on networks at Karolinska Institutet and University of Melbourne.

Impact and Reception

The journal’s articles are cited in clinical guidelines from bodies like American Academy of Neurology, influence policy briefs from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and are referenced in reviews by the Cochrane Collaboration. High-impact reviews have informed practice at tertiary centers such as Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and influenced research agendas at funded programs by National Institutes of Health and foundations like Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Reception in academic circles is reflected in citation metrics tracked by Clarivate Analytics and altmetrics noted by providers such as Altmetric. The journal has been discussed at conferences organized by Sleep Research Society and European Sleep Research Society and featured in symposia at universities including University of Cambridge and Princeton University.

Access and Publication Model

Published by Elsevier, the journal operates a hybrid access model offering subscription content alongside open access options in line with mandates from funders such as Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and national research councils including UK Research and Innovation. Authors affiliated with institutions like University of California and ETH Zurich may utilize institutional agreements or pay article processing charges to comply with open access policies of agencies such as Horizon Europe. The journal’s online platform integrates with repositories like PubMed Central for eligible content and with abstracting services provided by Embase and CINAHL.

Category:Medical journals