ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Aims and scope of journal
• Impact factor
• Abstracted/indexed in
• ISSN and eISSN
• Editors

Aims and scope of journal

Asian Journal of Andrology is an international peer-reviewed journal. It is the official journal of the Asian Society of Andrology, and is sponsored by the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. AJA focuses on new basic and clinical (including modern, traditional and epidemiological) research on andrology. AJA welcomes original articles and review papers in this field. AJA also publishes announcements of meetings, postgraduate courses, symposia and other similar events of interest to andrologists.

Fields of particular interest to the journal include, but are not limited to:

• Male reproductive health
• Cellular and molecular mechanism of sperm biology
• Anatomical and functional studies of male reproductive system
• Male infertility
• Male ageing
• Male sexual dysfunction
• Prostate diseases
• Environmental, life style and genetic factors and men's health

Impact Factor

2008 Impact Factor: 2.059*

Rank:
3/5 in Andrology*
28/57 in Urology and Nephrology*

* Journal Citation Reports, Thomson 2009

Abstracted/indexed in

Chemical Abstracts
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Index Medicus
MEDLINE
Pubmed
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Research Alert
ISI
IndexCopernicus
CSA - Life Schiences

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Asian Journal of Andrology is 1008-682X, and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1745-7262.

Editors

Editorial Board

Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Jie-Ping Wu (China)
Shao-Zhen Qian (China)

Editor-in-Chief
Yi-Fei Wang (China)

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
David J. Handelsman (Australia)

Associate Editors-in-Chief
Sujoy K. Guha (India)
Je Jong Kim (Korea)
Akihiko Okuyama (Japan)
Ji-Chuan Zhu (China)

Regional Coordinators
Asia
Premendu Prakash Mathur (India)

Australia
De Yi Liu (Australia)

Europe
Louis Gooren (the Netherlands)

North America
Chawnshang Chang (USA)

Africa
Ralf Henkel (South Africa)

Advisory Board
Chairman
David de Kretser (Australia)
Yong-Lian Zhang (China)

Members
Dimitri A. Adamopoulos (Greece)
Gordon Baker (Australia)
Arnold M. Belker (USA)
Hector E. Chemes (Argentina)
Trevor G. Cooper (Germany)
Rune Eliasson (Sweden)
Aleksander Giwercman (Sweden)
J. A. Grootegoed (the Netherlands)
Zhi-Ping Gu (China)
Ying-Lu Guo (China)
Wayne J. G. Hellstrom (USA)
Barry T. Hinton (USA)
Ilpo Huhtaniemi (Finland)
Yu Jiang (China)
Niels Jorgensen (Denmark)
F-M Köhn (Germany)
Iwan Lewis-Jones (UK)
Bruno Lunenfeld (Israel)
Soon-Chye Ng (Singapore)
Marie-Claire Orgebin-Crist (USA)
Wolf-Bernhard Schill (Germany)
Roger Short (Australia)
Ronald S Swerdloff (USA)
Fred C. W. Wu (UK)
She-Pu Xue (China)

Editorial Board Members
P. Ganesan Adaikan (Singapore)
F. X. Arif Adimoelja (Indonesia)
Ashok Agarwal (USA)
R. John Aitken (Australia)
Anna-Maria Andersson (Denmark)
Susan H. Benoff (USA)
Joseph C. Cappelleri (USA)
Wai-Yee Chan (USA)
Junichi Fujii (Japan)
Robert Howard Getzenberg (USA)
Victor H. H. Goh (USA)
David John Grignon (USA)
Sidney Ray Grimes (USA)
Yi-Qun Gu (China)
Gerhard Haidl (Germany)
Aucky Hinting (Indonesia)
Russell Campbell Jones (Australia)
Sae Chul Kim (Korea)
Dolores J. Lamb (USA)
Will M. Lee (Hong Kong, China)
Ching-Shwun Lin (USA)
Alvin Y. Liu (USA)
Peter Yiwen Liu (Australia)
Yi-Xun Liu (China)
Tom Futai Lue (USA)
Kamal Zaki Mahmoud (Egypt)
William J. Moorman (USA)
Toshiaki Noce (Japan)
Jae-Seung Paick (Korea)
Gedalia Paz (Israel)
Gail S. Prins (USA)
Brian Peter Setchell (Australia)
Jia-Hao Sha (China)
David Sokal (USA)
Guang-Huan Sun (Taiwan, China)
Qing-Yuan Sun (China)
M. Ismail M. Tambi (Malaysia)
Hui Meng Tan (Malaysia)
Guo-Min Wang (China)
Yi-Xin Wang (China)
Patrick Y. D. Wong (Hong Kong, China)
Shu-Jie Xia (China)
Hong Xiao (China)
Chen Xu (China)
Yuan-Chang Yan (China)
Zheng-Wei Yang (China)
Ching-Hei Yeung (Germany)

Corresponding Editors
Salman Azhar (USA)
Elias Castanas (Greece)
Adel Hassan Elbeheiry (Egypt)
Paolo Emiliozzi (Italy)
Tibet Erdogru (Turkey)
Jiao-Ti Huang (USA)
Yu-Feng Huang (China)
Zheng Li (China)
Hui Jiang (China)
Young Chan Kim (Korea)
Shahriar Koochekpour (USA)
Sang Kon Lee (Korea)
Somboon Leungwattanakij (Thailand)
N.K. Lohiya (India)
Nian-Qing Lu (China)
Okabe Masaru (Japan)
Moira Kathleen O’Bryan (Australia)
Steven M. Schrader (USA)
Zhou-Jun Shen (China)
Teruaki Iwamoto (Japan)
Run Wang (USA)
Zhong-Cheng Xin (China)
Yuan-Cheng Xu (China)
Bo Yang (China)