''JAMA Surgery'' is an international peer-reviewed journal, which began publication in 1920.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. Retrieved 2020-05-31. It is the official publication of the Association of VA Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and the Surgical Outcomes Club.Kibbe, MD, Melina R. (2022)
"About ''JAMA Surgery''"
JAMA Network,

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, Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved 2022-12-22. It is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medicine and specialty publications. Its current (2022)

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is Melina Kibbe at the

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. 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. 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

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program.

Mission statement

"To promote the art and science of surgery by publishing relevant peer-reviewed research to assist the surgeon in optimizing patient care. ''JAMA Surgery'' will also serve as a forum for the discussion of issues pertinent to surgery, such as the education and training of the surgical workforce, quality improvement, and the ethics and economics of health care delivery."

Brief history

In July 1920, the first issue of ''Archives of Surgery'' was published by the

. 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''. 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 The ''Annals of Surgery'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal of surgical science and practice. It was started in 1885 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (United States, United Kingdom). See also * List of medical journals References Ex ...

'', 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". 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.

Editors-in-chief, 1920 to present

*Dean Lewis, MD; 19201940 *Waltman Walters, MD; 19411942, 19461961 *Lester Dragstedt, MD; 19431945 *J. Garrett Allen, MD; 19621969 *Richard Warren, MD; 19701976 *Arthur Baue, MD; 19771988 *Claude H. Organ Jr, MD; 19892004 * Julie Ann Freischlag, MD; 20052014 * Melina Kibbe, MD; 2015present

Editorial information

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

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. It is also included on the

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list of approved journals.

World ranking

According to the annual ''

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'', the 2021

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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

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index.

References and notes

External links

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