Draft:ATS Scholar

ATS Scholar is focused on improving the health of people with respiratory diseases, sleep disorders, and critical illness by disseminating high-quality scholarship related to education and training that impacts the care of these patients. ATS Scholar is one of four journals published by the American Thoracic Society, along with the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ("Blue Journal"), American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology ("Red Journal"), and AnnalsATS (“White Journal”).

Contents
ATS Scholar is an open-access, online-journal, publishing blind peer-reviewed health professions education manuscripts relevant to the fields of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, including those related to the teaching of common clinical topics, the training of healthcare providers and scientists, and educational research. Blind peer review is conducted in a manner that does not disclose the identity of reviewers to the authors. Manuscripts pass an initial evaluation by the editor-in-chief and deputy editors, and then are typically assigned to two peer reviewers. The journal's impact factor of 1.9 was announced June 2023 by the Web of Science.

History
The journal was established in 2019 as an open access, online-only, medical education journal. The editor-in-chief is Nitin Seam, MD, who is the Associate Chief, Senior Research Physician and Fellowship Director of the NIH Critical Care Medicine Department. He is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University.

Abstracting and Indexing
ATS Scholar is currently indexed in Pub Med, Pub Med Central, Web of Science, Scopus, SHERPA/RoMEO,DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), and Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD).