Launched in 1973 by ier Science Publishers (Amsterdam), initially under the title IRCS Medical Science and currently published by Chapman and Hall (London), MSR is unique in publishing short basic and clinical research communications, together with editorials, review articles focusing on emerging "hot spots" in research, letters to the editor, and occasional speculative essays across the entire spectrum of medical sciences very quickly--within an average of four weeks of acceptance.
MSR is led by editor Bernard Dixon, and supported by a distinguished international editorial advisory board, which includes Roy Y. Calne and David Horrobin; the late Linus Pauling was also a member. Every contribution is externally peer-refereed. It is abstracted and indexed in, among others, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents/Life Sciences, and Excerpta Medica. Important recent papers have included the first report of the immunosuppressive action of rapamycin, preceded some 10 years earlier also by the first report, in ...
