Alcohol and Alcoholism

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| title = Alcohol and Alcoholism

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| former_names = Bulletin on Alcoholism, Journal of Alcoholism, British Journal on Alcohol and Alcoholism

| abbreviation = Alcohol Alcohol.

| discipline = Addiction medicine.

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| language = English

| editors = Jonathan D. Chick and Lorenzo Leggio

| publisher = Oxford University Press and the Medical Council on Alcohol

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| history = 1963–present

| frequency = Bimonthly

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| impact = 2.826

| impact-year = 2020

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| ISSN = 0735-0414

| eISSN = 1464-3502

| CODEN = ALALDD

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| LCCN = 83644732

| OCLC = 817791753

| website = https://academic.oup.com/alcalc

| link1 = https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/issue/current

| link1-name = Online access

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Alcohol and Alcoholism is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering alcoholism and other health effects of alcohol. It was established in 1963 as the Bulletin on Alcoholism, with H.D. Chalke as the founding editor.{{cite journal|last1=Thomson|first1=Allan D.|title=The Journal Evolves|journal=British Journal on Alcohol and Alcoholism|volume=17|issue=4|pages=125–127|url=https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article-abstract/17/4/125/98879/The-Journal-Evolves?redirectedFrom=PDF}} In 1968, it was renamed the Journal of Alcoholism, and in 1977, it was again renamed, this time to British Journal on Alcohol and Alcoholism. In 1983, it obtained its current name. It is co-owned and co-published by the Medical Council on Alcohol (MCA) along with Oxford University Press, which bought a 50% stake in the journal in 2011.{{Cite press release |title=Oxford University Press and Medical Council on Alcohol announce long-term partnership |date=2012-01-24 |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/oup-oup012412.php}} It is the official journal of both the MCA and the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. The editors-in-chief are Jonathan D. Chick (Castle Craig Hospital) and Lorenzo Leggio (Bethesda, MD, USA). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.826.{{cite book |year=2021 |chapter=Alcohol and Alcoholism |title=2020 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate Analytics |edition=Science |series=Web of Science|title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}