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Endocrine Connections is a society-owned, monthly, peer-reviewed, open access academic journal. It covers endocrinology with a focus on basic, clinical and translational research and reviews in all areas of endocrinology, including papers that deal with non-classical tissues as source or targets of hormones and endocrine papers that have relevance to endocrine-related and intersecting disciplines and the wider biomedical community. It is jointly owned by the European Society of Endocrinology and the Society for Endocrinology. The editor-in-chief is Professor Josef Köhrle (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 2.592. The journal has been published by Bioscientifica since 2012.

History
Endocrine Connections was established in June 2012 as a joint venture between ESE and the Society for Endocrinology, to be published by Bioscientifica and to service the endocrine community as one of the first fully open-access endocrine journals.

Leon Heward-Mills, Chief Executive at the Society for Endocrinology in 2012 stated in a press release for the launch of the journal that “We believe the time is now right for a new kind of journal that will help stimulate cross-discipline collaboration and give our authors the highest possible visibility for their work...We already serve the core endocrinology community well with our established portfolio of journals, but as barriers between disciplines become increasingly blurred, we want to offer authors a new way to reach a much broader readership than traditional subscription-based journals can generally offer. We believe that Endocrine Connections is ideally placed to do this.”

The founding Editor-in-Chief was Dr Jens Sandahl Christiansen, Professor of Medicine at the University of Aarhus. Endocrine Connections key aim from its onset has been to offer authors rapid, wide exposure for their work to the global scientific community and by publishing open access, enable critical research discoveries to be free to anyone and everyone.

The journal was accepted into PubMed Central in May 2013, highlighting a major milestone in the journals development.

The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor Josef Köhrle who stepped up from his role as Senior Editor in 2016. Josef Köhrle had been on the Editorial Board of the journal since its inception.

Endocrine Connections received its first Impact Factor of 2.541 in 2017 and in 2018 received its highest Impact Factor of 3.041

Online access
All peer-reviewed editorial and review content is free to access from publication. As the journal is fully open-access, all published articles are released under the ‘gold’ open access option, whereby authors pay an article publishing charge upon acceptance to have their article made freely available online immediately upon publication. These articles are automatically deposited into PubMed Central.

Endocrine Connections licence policy includes CC BY, CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND.

Abstracting and indexing
Endocrine Connections is indexed in: • Directory of Open Access Journals

• Google Scholar

• HINARI

• PubMed Central/PubMed

• SCImago

• Science Citation Index

• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)