The Journal of Near-Death Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 covering near-death studies

Near-death studies

Near-death studies is a school of psychology and psychiatry that studies the phenomenology and after-effects of a Near-death experience .-NDE :...

 that is published by the International Association for Near-Death Studies. The journal's founding editor-in-chief was Kenneth Ring

Kenneth Ring

Kenneth Ring is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut, and a researcher within the field of near-death studies...

. Subsequent editors were Bruce Greyson

Bruce Greyson

Bruce Greyson, M.D. , is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia. He is co-author of Irreducible Mind and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences...

 and Janice Holden.

History

The journal was established in 1982 as Anabiosis and obtained its current title in 1987 with the start of volume 6. From 1997-2003 the journal was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Springer Science+Business Media

- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

, but this arrangement was discontinued upon completion of Volume 21.