Ophthalmology

Discipline	Ophthalmology
Language	English
Edited by	Stephen McLeod
Publication details
History	1978–present
Publisher	Elsevier on behalf of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	12.079 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Ophthalmology
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	OPHTDG
ISSN	0161-6420 (print) 1549-4713 (web)
LCCN	78005685
OCLC no.	03661682
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Ophthalmology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. It covers all aspects of ophthalmology.

Editors

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:

• Russell N. Van Gelder (2022-present)
• Stephen McLeod (2017–2022)
• George B. Bartley (2012–2017)
• Andrew P. Schachat (2003–2012)
• Donald S. Minckler (1995-2003)

Family of Journals

On June 6, 2016, The American Academy of Ophthalmology announced plans to launch Ophthalmology Retina as an extension of the journal Ophthalmology.^[1] This new journal was planned in response to the growing volume of research within the retina subspecialty of ophthalmology, and will be a print and online publication.