Dermatology is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal

Medical journal

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 published by Karger Publishers. It was established in 1893 as the Dermatologische Zeitschrift and was renamed Dermatologica in 1939. It obtained its current name in 1993. The founding editor-in-chief was Oskar Lassar

Oskar Lassar

Oskar Lassar was a German dermatologist who was a native of Hamburg. After earning his medical doctorate in 1872, he was briefly a hospital assistant at the Berlin Charité. Afterwards he started a private hospital for dermatology and syphilis in Berlin...

. Other notable editors were Wilhelm Lutz  (1939–1958) and Rudolf Schuppli (1959–1985). It is the official journal of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Dermatologie und Venere and the Belgian Society for Dermatology and Syphiligraphy. According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 2.714.