临床化学是当今临床实验室进行同行评审、原创研究的领先论坛。在临床化学、临床(或解剖)病理学、分析化学、输血医学、临床微生物学等分支学科期刊中，Clin Chem除了是该领域被引用最多的期刊(2005年被引用超过18000次)外，其影响因子最高(2005年为7.717)。该杂志每月出版一期，发表有关基本材料或原理、分析和分子诊断技术、仪器仪表、数据处理、数据统计分析、化学在其中发挥重要作用的临床研究或针对人类疾病的化学问题的实验室动物研究的实验或理论贡献。
Clinical Chemistry is the leading forum for peer-reviewed, original research on innovative practices in today s clinical laboratory. In addition to being the most cited journal in the field (over 18,000 citations in 2005), Clin Chem has the highest Impact Factor (7.717 in 2005) among journals of clinical chemistry, clinical (or anatomic) pathology, analytical chemistry, and the subspecialties, such as transfusion medicine, clinical microbiology. The journal issued monthly, publishes contributions, either experimental or theoretical, that concern basic materials or principles, analytical and molecular diagnostic techniques, instrumentation, data processing, statistical analyses of data, clinical investigations in which chemistry has played a major role, or laboratory animal studies of chemically oriented problems of human disease.