The first peer-reviewed journal dedicated exclusively to the latest advances in high altitude life sciences. The journal features the latest findings on the effects on lung and heart disease, appetite and weight loss, pulmonary and cerebral edema, hypertension, dehydration, infertility, and other diseases. Covers the full spectrum of high altitude life sciences, including physiology, pharmacology, comparative and evolutionary biology, anthropology, human and animal ecology, pathology, and pathogenesis.
The Official Journal of the International Society for Mountain Medicine. Members of the society can access the e-journal via the "Members Only" section of the society website.
Latest Impact Factor* is 1.667
* 2008 Journal Citation Reports® published by Thomson Reuters, 2009.
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MEDLINE; Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index®; Science Citation Index Expanded; Focus On: Sports Science & Medicine; Scopus