摘要
The Asian Journal of Andrology is the official publication of the Asian Society of Andrology,and is sponsored by theShanghai Institute of Materia Medica,Chinese Academy of Sciences.The Journal has been included in 11 internationalindexing systems,including BIOSIS,CAB Abstracts,CAB Health,Chemical Abstracts,Cunent Contents/Clinical Medicine,EMBASE,Index Medicus,MEDLINE,PASCAL,Research Alert,and SCI Expanded.The Impact Factor is 1.096 and the Journalranks third among international andrology journals.The Journal invites concise reports of original research in all areas of andrology,both experimental and clinical,includingmodern,traditional and epidemiological studies,from any part of the world.Review articles will be published by invitationfiom the Editor-in-Chief,but mini-reviews(no more than 4 printed pages)based primarily on authors own research on