Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 published by John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons

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 since 2006. It covers the areas of magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging

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 and magnetic resonance spectroscopy, but also all other in vivo imaging technologies such as x-Ray, PET/CT, etc. The current editors-in-chief are Silvio Aime (University of Turin

University of Turin

The University of Turin is a university in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy...

) and Robert N. Muller (University of Mons-Hainaut

University of Mons-Hainaut

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).

Impact factor and rank

The 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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 is 4.020. It is ranked 15th out of 111 journals in the category "Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging".

Most-cited papers

The three most-cited papers are:

1. 'Comparative study of the physicochemical properties of six clinical low molecular weight gadolinium contrast agents', Volume 1, Issue 3, May-Jun 2006, Pages: 128–137, Laurent S, Elst LV, Muller RN
2. 'Long-term retention of gadolinium in tissues from nephrogenic systemic fibrosis patient after multiple gadolinium-enhanced MRI scans: case report and implications', Volume 2, Issue 4, Jul-Aug 2007, Pages: 199-205, Thakral C, Alhariri J, Abraham JL
3. 'How to determine free Gd and free ligand in solution of Gd chelates. A technical note', Volume 1, Issue 5, Sep-Oct 2006, Pages: 184-188, Barge A, Cravotto G, Gianolio E, et al.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in SciFinder

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, Scopus

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, and Web of Science

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.