JAMA Surgery
JAMA Surgery is an international peer-reviewed journal, which began publication in 1920.[1] It is the official publication of the Association of VA Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and the Surgical Outcomes Club.[2] It is also a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medical and specialty publications.[3] Its current (2020) editor-in-chief is Melina R. Kibbe, MD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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| Language | English |
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| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Archives of Surgery |
| History | 1920-present |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (United States) |
| 13.625 (2019) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | JAMA Surg. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 2168-6254 (print) 2168-6262 (web) |
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Published online weekly, every Wednesday, JAMA Surgery is also published in print/online issues 12 times a year. The journal in 2019 received over 3.2 million online visits and more than 3.7 million article views and downloads.[2] Without any author fees, all research articles are made free access online 12 months after publication on the website. In addition, the online version is freely available or nearly so to institutions in developing countries through the World Health Organization's HINARI program.
Mission statement
To promote the art and science of surgery by publishing relevant peer-reviewed research to assist the surgeon in optimizing patient care. JAMA Surgery will also serves as a forum for the discussion of issues pertinent to surgery, such as the education and training of the surgical workforce, quality improvement, and the ethics and economics of health care delivery.[2]
Brief history
In July 1920, the first issue of Archives of Surgery was published by the American Medical Association. William J. Mayo, MD, who was a member of the editorial board and authored the inaugural editorial, indicated that Archives of Surgery would follow the character and scope of its sister journals, Archives of Internal Medicine, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Diseases of Children.[1] Mayo also commented that Archives of Surgery would not compete with the other two prominent surgical journals that existed at the time: Annals of Surgery, established in 1885, and Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, established in 1905. The trustees who founded Archives of Surgery believed that creating this new surgical journal would help alleviate the publication burden of the other two surgical journals while also creating a "sphere of its own" that would be "sufficiently useful to the profession to warrant its entering the field".[1] The profession's widespread positive response to the initial issues of Archives of Surgery indicated that the new journal succeeded in that endeavor.
One of the most notable changes for Archives of Surgery occurred in January 2013 when the name was changed to JAMA Surgery. This name change occurred across the entire JAMA Network. The vision was to create a network of journals that shared a digital home, similar content, and a more consistent brand that conveyed the highest possible standards in medical journalism—a commitment to quality, integrity, innovation, and excellence.[1]
Editors-in-chief, 1920 to present
- Dean Lewis, MD; 1920-1940
- Waltman Walters, MD; 1941-1942, 1946-1961
- Lester Dragstedt, MD; 1943-1945
- J. Garrett Allen, MD; 1962-1969
- Richard Warren, MD; 1970-1976
- Arthur Baue, MD; 1977-1988
- Claude H. Organ Jr, MD; 1989-2004
- Julie Ann Freischlag, MD; 2005-2014
- Melina R. Kibbe, MD; 2015-present
Editorial information
The acceptance rate for JAMA Surgery in 2019 was 16% with a median time to first decision in nine days and 40 days with review. All articles are published online first. Additional information on the types of articles published and editorial policies is available in the journal's "Instructions for Authors". It should also be noted for reference that JAMA Surgery is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed;[4] the journal is also listed on the University Grants Commission of India list of approved journals.[5]
World ranking
According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2018 impact factor was 10.668, making it the highest ranking surgery journal in the world and further distinguishing it as the first surgery journal ever to break double digits in that scientometric index. Its Journal Impact Factor for 2019 continued to increase, rising substantially to 13.625 and maintaining the journal's top ranking.[2][6]
| Year | IF | Year | IF | Year | IF | Year | IF | Year | IF | Year | IF |
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| 2002 | 2.55 | 2003 | 2.75 | 2004 | 3.08 | 2005 | 3.05 | 2006 | 3.06 | 2007 | 3.49 |
| 2008 | 4.26 | 2009 | 4.32 | 2010 | 4.50 | 2011 | 4.42 | 2012 | 4.10 | 2013 | 4.30 |
| 2014 | 4.42 | 2015 | 5.66 | 2016 | 7.96 | 2017 | 8.50 | 2018 | 10.67 | 2019 | 13.63 |
References and notes
- Kibbe, MD, Melina R. and Howard Bauchner, MD (2020). "Announcing the 100th Anniversary of JAMA Surgery, 1920 to 2020", editorial, JAMA Network, January 8, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2019.5467 Retrieved 2020-05-31. (subscription required)
- Kibbe, MD, Melina R. (2020). "About JAMA Surgery", JAMA Network, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
- JAMA Network homepage, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
- "JAMA Surgery". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
- "(New) JAMA Surgery 2020". Open access journals. 23 April 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- "JAMA Surgery". 2019 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2020.
- The impact-factor ratings in 2013 and in earlier years relate to the journal under the title Archives of Surgery; the 2014 rating is a "blended" score covering the period of transition between the journal's previous title and current title; and the 2015 rating to the present are referenced under JAMA Surgery.