Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Clinical Nuclear Medicine has been published since its first issue in June 1976, making it almost exactly contemporaneous with the first human FDG-PET images acquired that same year. It is a monthly journal from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Wolters Kluwer) aimed squarely at clinical practice: diagnostic interpretation, new tracers and imaging techniques, case-based teaching material, and correlation of nuclear medicine findings with other imaging modalities.

It sits alongside more basic-science-oriented titles such as the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and EJNMMI as one of the main clinical-practice venues in the field, and is frequently cited for case reports and imaging pearls involving PSMA PET, DOTATATE PET and other radiopharmaceutical-based studies that do not fit the format of a full clinical trial report.

According to Wolters Kluwer's own journal page, its 2024 Journal Citation Reports impact factor was 9.6.