Bone (journal)

Bone is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the study of bone biology and mineral metabolism. It absorbed two journals, Metabolic Bone Disease and Related Research and Mineral and Bone, during its history. It was once the official journal of the International Bone and Mineral Society (IBMS), but has been an independently-published journal since 2012.

History
The journal has its origins in several journals which merged.

Metabolic Bone Disease and Related Research was established in 1978, with a different ISSN.

According to the IBMS website, two scientific journals, Bone (with the same ISSN as this journal; 1985 onwards) and Bone and Mineral  merged under the title Bone, which became the official journal of IBMS, published monthly, until the relationship between the journal and IBMS ended on 31 December 2012. The website notes that Bone went on to become a leading journal in the field, "publishing top-notch, peer-reviewed content on both the basic science and clinical sides".

Description
Bone is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Peter Ebeling of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had an impact factor of 4.147 in 2019.