European Journal of Endocrinology

The European Journal of Endocrinology is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering endocrinology with a focus on clinical and translational studies, research and reviews in paediatric and adult endocrinology. It is the clinical journal of the European Society of Endocrinology. The editor-in-chief is Johannes Romijn (University of Amsterdam). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 4.101. The journal has been published by Bioscientifica since 1999.

The European Journal of Endocrinology was established in 1948 as Acta Endocrinologica by a group of Scandinavian endocrinologists. The founding editor-in-chief was Axel Westman. The journal was originally sponsored by the national endocrine societies of Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Over its first four years the journal increased its publication frequency from four issues per year to nine issues, and has been published monthly since 1952.

The editors-in-chief between 1948 and 1994 were Professor Axel Westman, Dr Christian Hamburger, Dr Jörgen Starup and Dr Christian Binder. Albert G Burger was the first editor-in-chief under the new name.

Due to the growing international reputation of Acta Endocrinologica, in 1993 the journal was named as an official journal of the European Federation of Endocrine Societies (now European Society of Endocrinology). This change represented a will to broaden the horizons of the publication to the rest of Europe and further afield. As part of this shift, the journal changed its name to the European Journal of Endocrinology in 1994 and began selecting editorial board members from outside Scandinavia.