Stroke is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal published monthly by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is an academic and professional medical publisher owned by Wolters Kluwer group. It publishes textbooks, various electronic media, and over 275 journals and newsletters in the health-care field. Publications are aimed at physicians, nurses, clinicians, and students...

 on behalf of the American Heart Association

American Heart Association

The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas...

. It covers research on cerebral circulation and related diseases, including clinical research on assessment of risk for stroke, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, as well as rehabilitation. According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 7.041, ranking it 5th out of 167 journals in the category "Clinical Neurology" and 4th out of 61 journals in the category "Peripheral Vascular Disease". The current editor-in-chief is Marc Fisher (University of Massachusetts Medical School

University of Massachusetts Medical School

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).