The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is a monthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal in the field of clinical nutrition

Clinical nutrition

Clinical nutrition is nutrition of patients in health care. Clinical in this sense refers to the manage of patients, not only outpatients at clinics, but also, and actually mainly, inpatients in hospitals. It incorporates mainly the scientific fields of nutrition and dietetics...

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According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, it has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 6.307, ranking it third among 66 journals in the category "Nutrition & Dietetics".

The journal was established in 1952 and is published by the American Society for Nutrition

American Society for Nutrition

The American Society for Nutrition is the principal United States society for professional researchers and practitioners in the field of nutrition, publishing two of the leading journals in the field...

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, the journal's editor-in-chief is Dennis M. Bier (Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

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A poll conducted in 2009 by the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association

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 identified the journal as among the "100 most influential journals ... over the last 100 years" in the fields of biology

Biology

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 and medicine

Medicine

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