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*Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases*
Discipline	Rare diseases
Language	English
Edited by	Francesc Palau
Publication details
History	2006-present
Publisher	BioMed Central
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Impact factor	3.687 (2018)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Orphanet J. Rare Dis.
Indexing;
ISSN	1750-1172;
OCLC no.	819044907
Links
	Journal homepage; Online archive;

The Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering research on rare diseases. It was established in 2006 and the editor-in-chief is Francesc Palau (Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona and CIBERER, Spain). It is an official journal of Orphanet and is published by BioMed Central, which is part of Springer Nature.

Aims, scope and content

By its own definition, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses all aspects of rare diseases and orphan drugs. The journal publishes reviews on specific rare diseases, as well as articles on clinical trial outcome reports (positive or negative), and articles on public health issues in the field of rare diseases and orphan drugs.^[1]

Readers can find contributions which are directly from patients affected by a rare disease or about events, such as the Rare Disease Day. Readers also have the possibility to search articles according to their subject or have them listed according to how often they were accessed.