Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB) is a peer review

Peer review

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ed journal concerned with the application of theoretical and practical physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

 to medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

, physiology

Physiology

Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

 and biology

Biology

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

. The first issue was published in July 1956.

PMB is published by IOP Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Physics

Institute of Physics

The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....

 and Engineering in Medicine. It is also an official journal of the following medical societies: the Canadian Organization of Medical Physics, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik, the Japanese Association of Radiological Physics, the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics and the International Organization for Medical Physics.

The editor-in-chief is Steve Webb at the Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research

Institute of Cancer Research

The Institute of Cancer Research is a cancer research institute located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. The ICR was founded in 1909 as a research department of the Royal Marsden Hospital and joined the University of London in 2003...

 and Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton

London Borough of Sutton

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, UK.

The journal had an Impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 3.056 for 2010 according to Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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. It is indexed in INSPEC

Inspec

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 Information Services, Chemical Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews/Biological Abstracts, Engineering Index/Ei Compendex

Compendex

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, EMBASE

EMBASE

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/Excerpta Medica, PASCAL Database, Article@INIST

INIST

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, ISI

Institute for Scientific Information

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 (SciSearch, ISI Alerting Services, Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Life Sciences), Index Medicus

Index medicus

Index Medicus is a comprehensive index of medical scientific journal articles, published since 1879. It was initiated by John Shaw Billings, head of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army...

/MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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, VINITI Abstracts Journal, and Sociedad Iberoamericano de Información Científica (SIIC).

External links

• Physics in Medicine and Biology homepage
• IOP Publishing Electronic Journals
• Institute of Physics