''JAMA Pediatrics'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
A medical journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that communicates medical information to physicians, other health professionals. Journals that cover many medical specialties are sometimes called general medical journals.
History
The first ...
published by the
American Medical Association. It covers all aspects of
pediatrics
Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...
. 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
Abraham Jacobi (6 May 1830 – 10 July 1919) was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics. He was a key figure in the movement to improve child healthcare and welfare in the United States and opened the first children's clinic in the country. ...
. 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.
The current editor-in-chief is
Dimitri A. Christakis (
University of Washington). According to ''
Journal Citation Reports'', the journal's 2021
impact factor is 26.796, ranking it 2nd out of 130 journals in the category "Pediatrics".
Naming history
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
Index Medicus/
MEDLINE/
PubMed.
See also
*
List of American Medical Association journals
References
External links
*
Pediatrics journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Publications established in 1911
American Medical Association academic journals
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