Nature Reviews Rheumatology的基础、转化和临床部分由国际知名的基础和临床学者撰写，面向生物学或医学的读者。该期刊涵盖了风湿病学领域的所有研究内容，并确保所有的文章都适用于广大读者。 
期刊收录研究方向：类风湿性关节炎，骨关节炎，系统性红斑狼疮、狼疮性肾炎及相关疾病，骨病（包括骨质疏松症）和骨生物学，系统性硬化和雷诺现象，抗磷脂综合症，干燥综合症，脊椎关节炎（包括强直性脊柱炎、银屑病性关节炎和反应性关节炎），痛风等晶体沉积病，自体炎症，急性炎性关节炎（包括感染性、脓毒性关节炎和莱姆关节炎），特发性炎性肌病（肌炎），纤维肌痛，风湿性肌痛，血管炎，其他风湿病，小儿风湿病学，炎症，免疫学（包括骨免疫学和免疫代谢），肌肉骨骼生物学，疼痛机制与管理，疾病机制，治疗，再生医学，流行病学，遗传学

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Chief Editor: Sarah Onuora ORCID
Sarah studied at McMaster University, Canada, where she gained an honours BSc in biology. Her career in publishing began in 2005 in the editorial office of Rheumatology, a research journal published by the British Society for Rheumatology. She joined Nature Reviews in 2007, initially as an Assistant Editor on Nature Reviews Neurology before moving to become an Associate Editor on Nature Reviews Rheumatology. She was promoted to Senior Editor in 2009, and became Chief Editor in December 2015.
Senior Editor: Joanna Clarke (née Collison), PhD ORCID
Joanna received a BSc in Natural Sciences from The University of Birmingham in 2009, then moved to London to pursue an Oliver Bird Rheumatism Programme-funded PhD in Immunology at King’s College London, investigating the relationship between endothelium and monocytes in rheumatic disease. Joanna joined Nature Reviews Rheumatology as an Associate Editor in March 2016 and was promoted to Senior Editor in 2018.
Senior Editor: Jessica McHugh, PhD ORCID
Jessica's interest in rheumatology arose from her summer work for Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases. After graduating from Durham University in 2010 with a first class BSc in biomedical science, Jessica started a PhD at Cambridge University. Under the supervision of Martin Turner at the Babraham Institute she studied the role of post-transcriptional regulators in CD4 T cell activation. From the lab Jessica moved into science publishing in 2015 as Production Editor for BioMed Central, before joining the Nature Reviews Rheumatology team in October 2016 and being promoted to Senior Editor in 2019.
The editors of Nature Reviews Rheumatology are based in London, UK.