''JAMA Pediatrics'' is a monthly

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published by the

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. 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

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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 (

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). According to ''

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'', the journal's 2021

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is 26.796, ranking it 2nd out of 130 journals in the category "Pediatrics".

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