Academic Medicine (journal)

Academic Medicine  
Discipline Academic medicine
Language English
Edited by David P. Sklar
Publication details
Former name(s)
Bulletin of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Medical Education, Journal of Medical Education
Publication history
1926-present
Publisher
Frequency Monthly
5.255
Standard abbreviations
Acad. Med.
Indexing
ISSN 1040-2446 (print)
1938-808X (web)
Links

Academic Medicine is the monthly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

History

The journal was established in 1926 as the Bulletin of the Association of American Medical Colleges. It was renamed Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges in 1929. In 1951 it briefly became Medical Education then Journal of Medical Education. In 1989 it took its current name of Academic Medicine.[1] In 2015, Academic Medicine was ranked one of the top five medical education journals that received attention in social media sources, such as Twitter and Facebook.[2]

In the course of its history, the journal has had nine editors. David P. Sklar is the present editor-in-chief, appointed in 2013.[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

References

  1. 1 2 "About the Journal". Academic Medicine. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  2. Maggio, LA; Meyer, HS; Artino AR, Jr (October 2017). "Beyond Citation Rates: A Real-Time Impact Analysis of Health Professions Education Research Using Altmetrics". Academic Medicine. 92 (10): 1449–1455. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001897. PMID 28817430.
  3. "Academic Medicine". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 8 October 2015.


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