About Gut
Aims and Scope
Gut aims to publish original articles describing novel mechanisms of disease and new management strategies, both diagnostic and therapeutic, likely to impact on clinical practice within the foreseeable future.
Gut is a leading international journal in gastroenterology and has an established reputation for publishing first class clinical research of the alimentary tract, the liver, biliary tree and pancreas. Gut delivers up-to-date, authoritative, clinically oriented coverage of all areas in gastroenterology. Regular features include articles by leading authorities, reports on the latest treatments for diseases, reviews and commentaries. The journal has an authoritative global Editorial Board and a growing international readership.
Gut is an official journal of the British Society of Gastroenterology.
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Gut is co-owned by the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and the BMJ Group. For more information please refer to the Affiliations section below.
Journal Statistics
| Acceptance rate | 8% for original research submitted in 2009 |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Impact factor | 9.766 |
| Indexed by | Index Medicus (Medline), Science Citation Index, ISI Current Contents (Clinical Medicine/Life Sciences), Excerpta Medica (Embase), BIOSIS Previews |
| Launch date | 1960 |
| Lead times | Time from submission to first decision (reviewed papers): 6 weeks (2009) |
| ISSN of Gut | 0017-5749 |
| ISSN of Gut Online | 1468-3288 |
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- Members of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) receive Gut as a benefit of membership
The BMJ Publishing Group is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss
issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve reliability and value of medical research literature by promoting transparent
and accurate reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
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