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Subjects Covered

    Rheumatoid arthritis
    Osteoarthritis
    Systemic lupus erythematosus, lupus nephritis and related disorders
    Bone disease (including osteoporosis) and bone biology
    Systemic sclerosis and Raynaud phenomenon
    Antiphospholipid syndrome
    Sjögren syndrome
    Spondyloarthritis (including ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and reactive arthritis)
    Gout and other crystal deposition diseases
    Autoinflammatory diseases
    Acute inflammatory arthritis (including infectious/septic arthritis and Lyme arthritis)
    Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (myositis)
    Fibromyalgia
    Polymyalgia rheumatica
    Vasculitis
    Other rheumatic diseases
    Pediatric rheumatology
    Inflammation
    Immunology (including osteoimmunology and immunometabolism)
    Musculoskeletal biology
    Pain mechanisms and management
    Mechanisms of disease
    Therapy
    Regenerative medicine
    Epidemiology
    Genetics

Perspective, Comment, News and View, Review

Chief Editor: Sarah Onuora ORCID
Sarah studied at McMaster University, Canada, where she gained an honours BSc in biology. Her career in publishing began in 2005 in the editorial office of Rheumatology, a research journal published by the British Society for Rheumatology. She joined Nature Reviews in 2007, initially as an Assistant Editor on Nature Reviews Neurology before moving to become an Associate Editor on Nature Reviews Rheumatology. She was promoted to Senior Editor in 2009, and became Chief Editor in December 2015.
Senior Editor: Joanna Clarke (née Collison), PhD ORCID
Joanna received a BSc in Natural Sciences from The University of Birmingham in 2009, then moved to London to pursue an Oliver Bird Rheumatism Programme-funded PhD in Immunology at King’s College London, investigating the relationship between endothelium and monocytes in rheumatic disease. Joanna joined Nature Reviews Rheumatology as an Associate Editor in March 2016 and was promoted to Senior Editor in 2018.
Senior Editor: Jessica McHugh, PhD ORCID
Jessica's interest in rheumatology arose from her summer work for Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases. After graduating from Durham University in 2010 with a first class BSc in biomedical science, Jessica started a PhD at Cambridge University. Under the supervision of Martin Turner at the Babraham Institute she studied the role of post-transcriptional regulators in CD4 T cell activation. From the lab Jessica moved into science publishing in 2015 as Production Editor for BioMed Central, before joining the Nature Reviews Rheumatology team in October 2016 and being promoted to Senior Editor in 2019.
The editors of Nature Reviews Rheumatology are based in London, UK.