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Academic Journals Program

Arnold published a growing list of peer-reviewed academic journals across the disciplines our book list serves — clinical medicine, the health professions, applied science and engineering, and the humanities.

The journals program grew alongside the book list rather than apart from it. Where a textbook established a subject on the Arnold list, a periodical typically followed — the same commissioning editors knew the field, the same authors were already writing, and the readership the books reached overlapped almost completely with the readership a journal in the same area needed. At its peak the programme carried titles across clinical medicine and the allied health professions, applied science and quantitative methods, and the literary and historical humanities, with editorial offices in London, Sevenoaks, and (for the medical list) a network of hospital-based associate editors across the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Each title operated under double-blind peer review with editorial boards drawn from the relevant clinical, academic, or professional community. Submissions were handled by a named editor-in-chief rather than a rotating board chair, which kept the editorial voice of each journal recognisable from year to year — a model the medical titles in particular maintained continuously from launch through to the transfer of the programme to SAGE Publications in 2006. The biographical and editorial history pages linked from each title’s individual record below give the line of editors-in-chief and, where we hold them, the founding editorial statements.

The catalogue below lists the journals whose individual records we have re-published on this site — the ones with substantive ongoing reference value to readers and librarians. Many of the journals continued under SAGE after the 2006 transfer and are still published today; the Arnold pages here focus on the editorial history and the published volumes that fall within the Arnold imprint years. Historical volume enquiries, ISSN confirmations, and back-issue availability questions go through the address at the bottom of this page.

The programme

At its peak, 33 peer-reviewed titles.

In 2006 Hodder Arnold sold its complete academic journals list — 33 peer-reviewed titles — to SAGE Publications. Most continued publication under SAGE with their existing editors. A smaller number ceased around or after the transfer.

Titles on record

  • Reproductive Medicine Review

    ISSN 0962-2799 · started 1992 (Vol. 1) · ceased 2003 (Vol. 11, issues 2/3, July/October)

    reproductive endocrinology · gamete and embryo biology · inhibin and activin biology

  • Statistical Methods in Medical Research

    ISSN 0962-2802 · started 1992

    biostatistics · clinical-trial methodology · epidemiological methods

  • Statistical Modelling

    ISSN 1471-082X · started 2001

    generalized linear models · mixed models · Bayesian inference

  • Clinical Rehabilitation

    ISSN 0269-2155 · started 1987

    rehabilitation medicine · stroke and neurorehabilitation · musculoskeletal rehabilitation

  • Pain Reviews

    ISSN 0968-1302

    acute and chronic pain · neuropathic pain mechanisms · pain pharmacology

  • Lupus

    ISSN 0961-2033 · started 1991

    systemic lupus erythematosus · antiphospholipid syndrome · connective-tissue disease

  • The Holocene

    ISSN 0959-6836 · started 1991

    Holocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction · palaeoclimatology · archaeological science

  • Vascular Medicine

    ISSN 1358-863X · started 1996

    peripheral arterial disease · venous thromboembolism · vascular imaging

  • German History

    ISSN 0266-3554 · started 1984

    medieval and early-modern Germany · modern German history · Weimar and the Nazi period

  • Progress in Physical Geography

    ISSN 0309-1333 · started 1977

    geomorphology · biogeography · palaeoenvironmental research

  • Second Language Research

    ISSN 0267-6583 · started 1985

    theoretical second-language acquisition · L2 grammatical development · bilingualism & the multilingual brain

  • Language Teaching Research

    ISSN 1362-1688 · started 1997

    classroom-based language-teaching research · task-based language teaching · L2 teacher education

  • Language Testing

    ISSN 0265-5322 · started 1984

    theory and practice of language testing · test validity and reliability · computer-based assessment

  • Trauma

    ISSN 1460-4086

    trauma resuscitation & care · polytrauma & mass casualty · trauma surgery

  • Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

    ISSN 0143-6244

    heating, ventilation & air-conditioning (HVAC) · building energy performance · thermal comfort

  • Ecumene (later Cultural Geographies)

    ISSN 0967-4608 · started 1994

    cultural geography · landscape and meaning · geography and the humanities

  • Construction Innovation

    ISSN 1471-4175 · started 2001

    construction process innovation · IT and digital construction · sustainability in construction

  • Human and Experimental Toxicology

    ISSN 0960-3271 · started 1981

    human and animal toxicology · regulatory toxicology · environmental toxicology

  • War in History

    ISSN 0968-3445 · started 1994

    military history (all periods) · the social history of war · strategic and operational studies

  • Primary Health Care Research and Development

    ISSN 1463-4236

    primary care research · chronic disease in the community · integrated care

  • Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control

    ISSN 0142-3312 · started 1979

    control engineering · measurement & instrumentation · systems engineering

  • Multiple Sclerosis (now Multiple Sclerosis Journal)

    ISSN 1352-4585 · started 1995

    MS pathogenesis and neuroimmunology · disease-modifying therapies · neurorehabilitation in MS

  • Progress in Development Studies

    ISSN 1464-9934 · started 2001

    development studies · international development policy · poverty and inequality research

  • Nursing Ethics

    ISSN 0969-7330 · started 1994

    clinical and professional ethics in nursing · moral distress, conscience and advocacy · end-of-life care, research ethics and global nursing practice

  • Progress in Human Geography

    ISSN 0309-1325 · started 1977

    critical review essays in human geography · political, economic and cultural geography · environment, development and urban theory

  • Toxicology and Industrial Health

    ISSN 0748-2337 · started 1985

    occupational and environmental toxicology · health risk assessment and exposure science · genetic and cellular toxicology

  • Law, Culture and the Humanities

    ISSN 1743-8721 · started 2005

    law and literature, legal history and legal theory · cultural studies of law and interpretation · humanities approaches to justice and authority

  • Transplant Immunology

    ISSN 0966-3274 · started 1993

    clinical and experimental transplant immunology · histocompatibility, rejection and tolerance · stem-cell and xenotransplantation immunology

  • Palliative Medicine

    ISSN 0269-2163 · started 1987

    symptom control and communication in advanced illness · palliative care trials and service evaluation · multidisciplinary end-of-life research

  • Lighting Research & Technology

    ISSN 1365-7828 · started 1969

    daylighting, electric light and visual perception · energy performance and controls · interior and exterior lighting design research

  • Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice

    ISSN 1078-1552 · started 1995

    oncology pharmacy and therapeutics · chemotherapy preparation and safety · supportive care and outcomes in cancer treatment

Other journals from the programme continued under SAGE Publications after 2006 — we can confirm whether a specific title was part of the Arnold list on request.