Muscle & Nerve


Muscle & Nerve is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering neuromuscular medicine. It was founded in 1978 by Walter Bradley. It is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine, of which it has been the official journal since 1982. The editor-in-chief is Zachary Simmons. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.217, ranking it 106th out of 208 journals in the category "Clinical Neurology" and 174th out of 273 in the category "Neurosciences".

Editors-in-chief

The current editor-in-chief of Muscle & Nerve is Zachary Simmons, whose term as editor-in-chief began in January 2017. Previous editors-in-chief of the journal are:
  • Lawrence Phillips, II
  • Michael Aminoff
  • Jun Kimura
  • Walter Bradley