Endocrine Connections is an Open Access journal, which means that all published articles are made freely available online to everyone. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access. The costs of publication are covered by a relatively modest charge, which is payable by authors (or their grant funding body or institution) whose articles are accepted for publication.

Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief of Endocrine Connections is Professor Josef Köhrle – University Professor of Molecular Endocrinology at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.

Aims and Scope

Endocrine Connections publishes original quality research and reviews in all areas of endocrinology, with a focus on papers that have relevance to its related and intersecting disciplines and the wider biomedical community. The journal considers basic, translational and clinical studies. Endocrine Connections is brought to you by the Society for Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology: working together to further research, education and clinical practice in endocrinology.

Publication Process

The same rigorous standards of peer review and production are applied to Endocrine Connections as to our regular subscription journals, such as the Journal of Endocrinology and the European Journal of Endocrinology.

Abstracting and Indexing

All articles are made available online on our high-quality online platform and fully referenced and linked to a wide variety of discoverability services.

Endocrine Connections is indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), BIOSIS previews, Biological Abstracts, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Chemical Abstracts, EMBASE and Sherpa/ROMEO.

Content is also included in the HINARI initiative.