title: Sleep (journal)
text: # Sleep (journal)
  
  Sleep is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on sleep. Topics include basic and neuroscience studies of sleep, in vitro and animal models of sleep, studies in clinical or population samples, clinical trials, and epidemiologic studies. It is the official journal of the Sleep Research Society. The journal was established in 1978 and the editor-in-chief is Ronald Szymusiak (University of California, Los Angeles).
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * Science Citation Index
  * Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
  * Current Contents/Life Sciences
  * BIOSIS Previews
  * Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 5.135.
  
  