JAMA Pediatrics

*JAMA Pediatrics*
Discipline	Pediatrics
Language	English
Edited by	Dimitri A. Christakis
Publication details
Former name(s)	Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, American Journal of Diseases of Children
History	1911–present
Publisher	American Medical Association (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	24.7 (2023)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	JAMA Pediatr.
Indexing;
	JAMA Pediatrics
CODEN	APAMEB
ISSN	2168-6203 (print); 2168-6211 (web);
LCCN	95642320
OCLC no.	28958056
	American Journal of Diseases of Children
ISSN	0096-8994;
	A.M.A. American Journal of Diseases of Children
ISSN	2374-2941;
	Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
ISSN	1072-4710;
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archives;

JAMA Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.^[1] It covers all aspects of pediatrics. The journal was established in 1911 as the American Journal of Diseases of Children and renamed in 1994 to Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, before obtaining its current title in 2013.

The journal's founding editor-in-chief in 1911 was Abraham Jacobi. The articles in that first volume of the journal were mostly observational studies focused on the major causes of illness and death in children at the start of the 20th century.^[2]

The current editor-in-chief is Dimitri A. Christakis (University of Washington). According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2023 impact factor is 24.7, ranking it 1st in the category "Pediatrics".^[3]

Naming history

JAMA Pediatrics – historical name changes^[4]
Title	Year	ISSN
JAMA Pediatrics	2013–	2168-6211
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine	1994–2012	1072-4710
American Journal of Diseases of Children (1960)	1960–1993	0002-922X
A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children	1956–1960	0096-6916
A.M.A. American Journal of Diseases of Children	1950–1955	0096-8994
American Journal of Diseases of Children (1911)	1911–1950	0096-8994

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.^[5]

References

^ "JAMA Network". American Medical Association. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
^ Ligon-Borden, B. Lee (July 2003). "Abraham Jacobi, MD: father of American pediatrics and advocate for children's health". Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 14 (3): 245–249. doi:10.1016/S1045-1870(03)00055-4. PMID 12913838.
^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Pediatrics". 2024 Release of Journal Citation Reports™. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2023.
^ National Library of Medicine. "MedPrint Title List by Latest Title". National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
^ "JAMA Pediatrics". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2019-11-12.