High Altitude Medicine & Biology

Editor-in-Chief: Erik R. Swenson, MD

Online ISSN: 1557-8682 | Published Quarterly | Current Volume: 24

Impact Factor: 2.183* *2021 Journal Citation Reports™ (Clarivate, 2022)

CiteScore™: 3.9

The only peer-reviewed journal covering the medical and biological issues that impact human life at high altitudes.

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Announcements

Scientific abstracts from the XIII ISMM World Congress on Mountain Medicine
High Altitude Medicine & Biology is pleased to provide complimentary access to the scientific abstracts from the XIII ISMM World Congress on Mountain Medicine that took place virtually.

Published March 2022: Late-Breaking Abstracts | Abstract Author Index

Published December 2021: Abstracts | Abstract Author Index
Award Winner

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., in partnership with the Rosalind Franklin Society has launched a prestigious annual award to recognize outstanding published peer-reviewed research by women and underrepresented minorities in science in each of the publisher’s peer-reviewed journals. The RFS / MAL Award in Science for High Altitude Medicine & Biology has selected Tatum S. Simonson, PhD who authored Altitude Adaptation: A Glimpse Through Various Lenses.

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Aims & Scope

High Altitude Medicine & Biology is the only peer-reviewed journal covering the medical and biological issues that impact human life at high altitudes. The Journal delivers critical findings on the impact of high altitude on lung and heart disease, appetite and weight loss, pulmonary and cerebral edema, hypertension, dehydration, infertility, and other diseases. It covers the full spectrum of high altitude life sciences from pathology to human and animal ecology.

High Altitude Medicine & Biology coverage includes:

Hypoxia
Physiology
Pulmonology and cardiology
Comparative and evolutionary biology
Pharmacology
Anthropology
Pathogenesis

High Altitude Medicine & Biology is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Erik R. Swenson, MD, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System; Associate Editors Hermann Brugger, MD; Andrew M. Luks, MD; and other leading investigators. View the entire editorial board.

Audience: Clinicians, cell biologists, physiologists, evolutionary biologists, environmental medicine specialists, respiratory and pulmonology specialists, among others

Indexing/Abstracting:

PubMed/MEDLINE
PubMed Central
Scopus
Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine
Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
Focus On: Sports Science & Medicine
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Chemical Abstracts
ProQuest databases
SafetyLit
BenchSci

The views, opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations set forth in any Journal article are solely those of the authors of those articles and do not necessarily reflect the views, policy or position of the Journal, its Publisher, its editorial staff or any affiliated Societies and should not be attributed to any of them.