JAMA (journal)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association. It publishes original research, reviews, and editorials covering all aspects of biomedicine. The journal was established in 1883 with Nathan Smith Davis as the founding editor. The journal's editor-in-chief is Howard Bauchner of Boston University, who succeeded Catherine DeAngelis on July 1, 2011.[1][2]

JAMA
DisciplineMedicine
LanguageEnglish
Edited byHoward C. Bauchner
Publication details
Former name(s)
Transactions of the American Medical Association; Councilor's Bulletin; Bulletin of the American Medical Association; Journal of the American Medical Association
History1883–present
Publisher
Frequency48/year
Delayed, after 6 months
51.273 (2018)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4JAMA
Indexing
CODENJAMAAP
ISSN0098-7484 (print)
1538-3598 (web)
LCCN82643544
OCLC no.1124917
Until 1960:
ISSN0002-9955
Links

History

The journal was established in 1883 by the American Medical Association and was superseded the Transactions of the American Medical Association.[3] Councilor's Bulletin was renamed the Bulletin of the American Medical Association, which later was absorbed by the Journal of the American Medical Association.[4] In 1960, the journal obtained its current title, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association.[5][6] The journal is commonly referred to as JAMA.

Continuing medical education

Continuing Education Opportunities for Physicians was a semiannual journal section providing lists for regional or national levels of continuing medical education (CME). Between 1937 and 1955, the list was produced either quarterly or semiannually. Between 1955 and 1981, the list was available annually, as the number of CME offerings increased from 1,000 (1955) to 8,500 (1981). In 2016, CME transitioned into a digital offering from the JAMA Network called JN Learning CME & MOC from JAMA Network.[7] JN Learning provides CME and MOC credit from article and audio materials published within all 12 JAMA Network journals, including JAMA.

Publication of article by Barack Obama

On 11 July 2016, JAMA published an article by Barack Obama entitled, United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps,[8] which was the first academic paper ever published by a sitting U.S. president. The article was not subject to blind peer-review. It argued for specific policies that future presidents could pursue in order to improve national health care reform implementation.[9]

Policy shift

After the controversial 1999 firing of an editor-in-chief, George D. Lundberg, a process was put in place to ensure editorial freedom. A seven-member journal oversight committee was created to evaluate the editor-in-chief and to help ensure editorial independence. Since its inception, the committee has met at least once a year. Presently, JAMA policy states that article content should be attributed to authors, not to the publisher.[10][11][12][13]

Artwork

From 1964 to 2013, the JAMA journal used images of artwork on its cover and it published essays commenting on the artwork.[14] According to former editor George Lundberg, this practice was designed to link the humanities and medicine.[15] In 2013, a format redesign moved the art feature to an inside page, replacing an image of the artwork on the cover with a table of contents.[14] The purpose of the redesign was to standardize the appearance of all journals in the JAMA Network.[16]

Previous chief editors

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of JAMA:[17]

  • Nathan S. Davis (1883–1888)
  • John B. Hamilton (1889, 1893–1898)
  • John H. Hollister (1889–1891)
  • James C. Culbertson (1891–1893)
  • Truman W. Miller (1899)
  • George H. Simmons (1899–1924)
  • Morris Fishbein (1924–1949)
  • Austin Smith (1949–1958)
  • Johnson F. Hammond (1958–1959)
  • John H. Talbott (1959–1969)
  • Hugh H. Hussey (1970–1973) [18] [19]
  • Robert H. Moser (1973–1975)
  • William R. Barclay (1975–1982)
  • George D. Lundberg (1982–1999)
  • Catherine D. DeAngelis (2000–2011)

Abstracting and indexing

The JAMA journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 51.273, ranking it 3rd out of 160 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".[26]

Use

In the first quarter of 2020 JAMA was one of the most popular and reliable journal in sources of Wikipedia.[27]

See also

References
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  2. "JAMA Network, For Authors". JAMA. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
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  8. Obama, Barack (July 11, 2016). "United States Health Care Reform - Progress to Date and Next Steps". JAMA. 316 (5): 525–532. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.9797. PMC 5069435. PMID 27400401.
    1. ObamaJAMA: Obama Just Became the First Sitting President to Publish an Academic Paper, Kelly Dickerson, July 13, 2016, Mic.com, https://mic.com/articles/148595/obamajama-obama-academic-paper-made-history#.zNIXflcV4
  10. Holden, Constance (15 January 1999). "JAMA Editor Gets the Boot". Science Now. Science.
  11. Kassirer, Jerome P. (27 May 1999). "Editorial Independence". The New England Journal of Medicine. 340 (21): 1671–2. doi:10.1056/NEJM199905273402109. PMID 10341280.
  12. JAMA & Archives Conditions of Use Archived December 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  13. Signatories of the Editorial Governance Plan (16 June 1999). "Editorial Governance for JAMA". JAMA. 281 (26): 2240–2. doi:10.1001/jama.281.23.2240.
  14. Levine, Jefferey M. (6 November 2013). "JAMA removes cover art, and why that matters". KevinMD.com.
  15. Showalter E (1999). "Commentary: An inconclusive study". BMJ. 319 (7225): 1603–1605. doi:10.1136/bmj.319.7225.1603. PMC 28304. PMID 10600956.
  16. Henry R, Bauchner H (2013). "JAMA gets a new look!". JAMA. 310 (1): 39. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.7053.
  17. American Medical Association (2015). "JAMA Masthead". JAMA. 313 (14): 1397–1398. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.11680.
  18. Gunby,Phil, Hugh Hussey, MD, former JAMA editor, dead at 71, JAMA, December 10, 1982, JAMA. 1982;248(22):2952. doi:10.1001/jama.1982.03330220012004
  19. Dr. Hugh H. Hussey, Dean Emeritus at GU, The Washington Post, November 11, 1982
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  26. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Medicine, General & Internal". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2019.
  27. Lewoniewski, Włodzimierz; Węcel, Krzysztof; Abramowicz, Witold (2020-05-13). "Modeling Popularity and Reliability of Sources in Multilingual Wikipedia". Information. 11 (5). doi:10.3390/info11050263. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
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