The ''Japan Medical Association Journal'' (JMAJ) is a quarterly

general medical journal A general medical journal is an academic journal dedicated to medicine in general, rather than a specific field of medicine. History The first English-language general medical journal was '' Medicina Curiosa'', which was established in 1684 and ce ...

. The journal was first published in 1958 as the ''Asian Medical Journal'', and from 2001 under the current title. Originally published by ''Japan Medical Publishing Inc.'', the journal is now owned and published by the

Japan Medical Association The (also known as JMA or ), is the largest professional association of licensed physicians in Japan. The JMA has been a member of the World Medical Association since 1951 and participates at all levels of the WMA. National headquarters are locat ...

. JMAJ publishes by author invitation only, original research articles, review articles ("seminars" and "reviews"), editorials, book reviews, correspondence, as well as news features and case reports. The journal publishes invited articles and does not accept unsolicited submissions. The current (2017) editor-in-chief is Mari Michinaga. JMAJ also reports news related to the Japan Medical Association's international engagement, including regional

World Medical Association The World Medical Association (WMA) is an international and independent confederation of free professional medical associations representing physicians worldwide. WMA was formally established on September 18, 1947 and has grown to 115 national ...

(WMA) projects, and Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania (CMAAO) activities.

History

., had published medical research in

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

and

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

through the since 1921. In 1958, JMP published the first issue of the ''Asian Medical Journal'', an English language publication, to further medical research to Japan and the Asian region The first issue included a message from president of the Japan Red Cross Society, stating the ongoing human suffering caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that the knowledge published in the new journal, would hopefully help to bring an end to the severe burden of disease caused by acute radiation poisoning. In 1960, the

assumed editorial responsibility for the journal, and in 1984 took over the publication rights. The journal's title was changed to the ''Japan Medical Association Journal'' (JMAJ) in 2001. Since 2014 the JMAJ has been available through

PubMed Central PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life sciences journals. As one of the major research databases developed by the National Center fo ...

Abstracting and indexing

The JMAJ is

abstracted and indexed An abstracting service is a service that provides abstracts of publications, often on a subject or group of related subjects, usually on a subscription basis. An indexing service is a service that assigns descriptors and other kinds of access poin ...

in the

Science Citation Index The Science Citation Index Expanded – previously entitled Science Citation Index – is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield. It was officially launched in 1964 and ...

, under the category for medicine, and with an

h-index The ''h''-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications, initially used for an individual scientist or scholar. The ''h''-index correlates with obvious success indicators such as ...

of 11.

References

{{Reflist, 30em

External links

PubMed Central
1958 establishments in Japan General medical journals Business magazines published in Japan Academic journals established in 1958