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Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology is a monthly international peer-reviewed journal which has been covering all clinical, experimental and translational aspects of musculoskeletal, arthritic and connective tissue diseases since 1983. The journal includes annual monothematic issues on the following topics:

The monothematic issue on Myositis is also the official organ of the International Myositis Society (iMyoS, https://imyos.org).

Articles submitted on these topics, once accepted are published ahead-of-print online, and subsequently included in the correspondent monothematic issue.

Editor-in-Chief
Stefano Bombardieri, MD

Environmental Rheumatology

LER & CER: Letter to the Editor Rheumatology

Letter to Editor Rheumatology: Commentaries and Controversies (LER) has been an online forum for a stronger voice and a wider audience for critical and dissenting views in rheumatology and related disciplines. It has joined forces with Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology to achieve the deserved wider audience.

Letters can be submitted solely to: https://www.clinexprheumatol.org, please read Authors’ Guidelines.

Page charge

A page charge of €150.00 will be assessed for all articles published. Letters to the Editor will be charged €300.00. Instructions for payment will be sent to authors along with the proofs. There is no charge for solicited articles.

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Non-inflammatory mimickers of myositis: a guide for rheumatologists

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Lupus or not? Idiopathic full house glomerulonephritis: a rare nephropathy with unexpectedly severe outcome

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Treatment and follow-up of patients with Sjögren's disease associated interstitial lung disease: a case series

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Acute activation of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons and their satellite glial cells by the serum of patients suffering from fibromyalgia

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Modification of 2022 ACR/EULAR ANCA-associated vasculitis classification criteria in a Japanese cohort (J-CANVAS)

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From 19/01/2026 to 26/01/2026

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Altered gut microbiota and host pathways in obesity-related knee osteoarthritis

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Intercepting the psoriasis-psoriatic arthritis continuum: a precision-medicine framework for at-risk, subclinical, and early psoriatic arthritis

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Impact of concomitant methotrexate on JAK inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease: a retrospective single-centre study from the KEIO-RA cohort

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Clinical practice guidelines for reporting nail fold videocapillaroscopy: a Delphi consensus on behalf of the Italian Society of Rheumatology study group on capillaroscopy

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