Birth Defects Research

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| former_name = Teratology

| abbreviation = Birth Defects Res.

| discipline = Obstetrics and gynaecology

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| editor = Michel Vekemans

| publisher = Wiley

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| frequency = 20/year

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| impact = 2.344

| impact-year = 2020

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| eISSN = 2472-1727

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| website = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/24721727

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Birth Defects Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal of birth defects published by Wiley on behalf of the Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention, which was established in 1960 as the Teratology Society.{{Cite journal|url = https://www.teratology.org/birth-defects-research-journal.asp|title = Teratology Society|journal = Nature|volume = 186|issue = 4729|pages = 937|bibcode = 1960Natur.186S.937.|year = 1960|doi = 10.1038/186937c0|doi-access = free|access-date = 2019-07-17|archive-date = 2022-08-18|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220818235318/http://teratology.org/birth-defects-research-journal.asp|url-status = dead}} It is in its 111th volume.{{cite web|title=Birth Defects Research. Official Journal of the Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention (official website)|website=Wiley Online Library|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/24721727}} The editor is Michel Vekemans.{{cite web |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/24721727/homepage/editorialboard.html |title=EDITOR-IN-CHIEF |author= |date= |website=Wiley Online Library |publisher=Wiley |access-date=2022-06-24 |quote=}}

The journal was founded in 1968 under the name Teratology, which was published quarterly from 1968 to 1971, bimonthly from 1972 to 1987, and monthly from 1988 onward.{{cite web|title=Tetralogy (catalog entry for the journal)|website=Library of Congress Catalog|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=10133&recCount=25&recPointer=7&bibId=11161906|lccn=68130668}} It merged in 2003 with the journal Teratogenesis, Carcinogenesis, and Mutagenesis (which was established in 1980) and given the name Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology. In January 2017, the journal was merged with Birth Defects Research Part B and Birth Defects Research Part C and given its present name Birth Defects Research. The Journal is the official publication of the Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention.[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15420760 Birth Defects Research]. Retrieved November 20, 2019.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.344.{{cite book |year=2021 |chapter=Birth Defects Research|title=2020 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate Analytics |edition=Science/Social Sciences |series=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}