JAMA Surgery

JAMA Surgery is a Surgery and Surgery Journal and published by American Medical Association.

Academic journal

JAMA Surgery

Language| English
Edited by| Melina Kibbe
Publication details

Former name(s)

Archives of Surgery

History| 1920-present
Publisher|

American Medical Association (United States)

Impact factor

| 16.681 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| JAMA Surg.
Indexing
CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN| 2168-6254 (print)
2168-6262 (web)

Links

* Journal homepage

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 a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medicine and specialty publications.[3] Its current (2022) editor-in-chief is Melina Kibbe at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[4]

Published online weekly, every Wednesday, JAMA Surgery is also published in print/online issues 12 times a year. In 2021, the journal logged over 3.8 million web sessions and more than 4.7 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.

## History

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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]

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.[1]

### Editors-in-chief, 1920 to present

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Table of contents for the first issue of Archives of Surgery, July 1920

* 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 Kibbe, MD; 2015–present

## Editorial information

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The acceptance rate for JAMA Surgery is 14% with a median time to first decision in 10 days and 38 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".

JAMA Surgery is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.[5] It is also included on the University Grants Commission of India list of approved journals.[6]

## World ranking

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The editorial board of JAMA Surgery celebrates its 2018 ranking as the top surgery journal in the world; Melina R. Kibbe, MD, editor-in-chief, seated at center.

According to the annual Journal Citation Reports, the 2021 impact factor for JAMA Surgery is 16.681, making it the highest-ranking surgery journal in the world. This continues a precedent that the journal set in 2018 as the first surgery publication to break double digits in that scientometric index.[7][8][9]

Impact Factors for JAMA Surgery, 2002–2021[10] 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 | 2020 | 14.77 | 2021 | 16.68

## See also

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* List of American Medical Association journals

## References and notes

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1. ^ a b c d 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)
2. ^ a b Kibbe, MD, Melina R. (2022). "About JAMA Surgery", JAMA Network, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
3. ^ JAMA Network homepage, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
4. ^ "For Authors". American Medical Association. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
5. ^ "JAMA Surgery". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
6. ^ Journals, Open Acess (23 April 2020). "(New) JAMA Surgery 2020". Open access journals. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
7. ^ Journal Impact Factors released each summer by Clarivate Analytics relate to citations made over the preceding calendar year to items published in the 2 full years before that.
8. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact". 2021 Release of Journal Citation Reports™. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2021.
9. ^ "JAMA Surgery Scores Again with Record-Setting Impact Factor". news.unchealthcare.org. July 8, 2020. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
10. ^ The impact-factor ratings issued in 2013 and in earlier years relate to the journal under the title Archives of Surgery. The published 2014 rating is therefore a "blended" score that covers the period of transition between the journal's previous title and current title. The 2015 rating and other scores cited to the present are calculated and fully referenced under JAMA Surgery.

## External links

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* Official website