Journal of the American Medical Association
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| Discipline | peer-reviewed medical journal |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviated title | JAMA |
| Publisher (country) | American Medical Association (USA) |
| Publication history | founded 1883 |
| Website | http://jama.ama-assn.org/ |
| ISSN | 0098-7484 |
The Journal of the American Medical Association (or JAMA) is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American Medical Association. Its official name is now JAMA and it is referred to by this name in reference lists. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world.[1]
Founded in 1883 and published continuously since then, JAMA publishes original research, reviews, commentaries, editorials, essays, medical news, correspondence, and ancillary content (such as abstracts of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report). In 2005, JAMAs impact factor was 23.5[1] placing it among the leading general medical journals.[2] JAMAs acceptance rate is approximately 8% of the nearly 6000 solicited and unsolicited manuscripts it receives annually.[1] The present editor of JAMA is Catherine DeAngelis.
In 1999, the AMA's recently-appointed executive director, E. Ratcliffe Anderson, fired George Lundberg, editor of JAMA. Lundberg was fired for publishing a survey of college students' attitudes about sex, by June Reinisch and Stephanie Sanders, of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. Based on a 1991 survey of 599 students at a major midwestern state university, the paper reports that 59% of the group did not regard oral-genital contact as having "had sex." This was relevant because of the controversy over whether President Bill Clinton had lied when he said that he never "had sex" with Monica Lewinsky.[3] Anderson was later fired himself as a result of other unrelated disputes with the AMA board.
[edit] Other leading medical journals
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Nature Medicine
- The Lancet
- British Medical Journal
- Annals of Internal Medicine
- Archives of Internal Medicine
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- American Journal of Public Health
- The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
[edit] References
- ^ a b c About JAMA: JAMA website
- ^ Journal Impact Factors
- ^ Constance Holden, JAMA Editor Gets the Boot, Science Now, 15 January 1999
