''The American Journal of the Medical Sciences'' 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 ...
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History
The journal was established in 1820 as the ''Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences''
by
Nathaniel Chapman. A new series was started in 1825 under the editorship of Chapman along with
William Potts Dewees and John D. Godman. In 1827, the editorship passed to
Isaac Hays, who gave it its present name,
and helped make it one of the most important American medical journals of the 19th century.
In 1984, the
Southern Society for Clinical Investigation
The Southern Society for Clinical Investigation is a professional society for medicine, based in the southern United States.
The organization was founded as the Southern Society for Clinical Research on October 5, 1946, at a meeting in New Orlean ...
became the journal's sponsor. In 1994, 21 percent of submissions came from outside the United States.
On the 175th anniversary, the February 1, 1995 issue featured a photograph of Volume 1 from 1820, a brief history and three classic articles were critiqued by contemporary scholars:
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Leo Buerger Leo Buerger (English ; ) (September 13, 1879 in Vienna – October 6, 1943 in New York City) was an Austrian American pathologist, surgeon and urologist. Buerger's disease is named for him.
Family and education
In 1880s his family emigrated t ...
"''Thrombo-angiitis Obliterans: A Study of the Vascular Lesions Leading to Presenile Spontaneous Gan-grene''," 136 (1908); critiqued by David A. Cutler and Marschall S. Runge of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
* E. Libman and H. L. Celler's "''The Etiology of Subacute Infectious Endocarditis''," - critiqued by Edward Hook Jr., of the University of Virginia
* Norman M. Keith, Henry P. Wagener and Nelson W Barker's "''Some Different Types of Essential Hypertension and the Cause and Prognosis''," critiqued by Harriet Dustan of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Regarding these critiques, Martinez-Maldonado said:
Modern journal
The ''American Journal of the Medical Sciences'' is currently published monthly by Elsevier. The 2018
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
was 1.962, with a rank of 65th of 160 medical journals. As of 2017, the
editor in chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Jesse Roman of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Notable contributors, notable articles
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Samuel George Morton
Samuel George Morton (January 26, 1799 – May 15, 1851) was an American physician, natural scientist, and writer who argued against the single creation story of the Bible, monogenism, instead supporting a theory of multiple racial creations, p ...
published his first medical essay in the 1825 journal.
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Henry Jacob Bigelow
Henry Jacob Bigelow (March 11, 1818October 30, 1890) was an American surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Harvard University.
A dominating figure in Boston medicine for many decades, he is remembered for the Bigelow maneuver for hip dislocation, ...
. "Dr. Harlow's case of Recovery from the passage of an Iron Bar through the Head." 20:13-22 (1850). This was only the second significant article published on
Phineas Gage
Phineas P. Gage (18231860) was an American railroad construction foreman known for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and ...
and his 1848 accident, but the first to create significant awareness of the case, thanks to the ''American Journal's'' prominence. (The first article on Gage, by
Dr. John Martyn Harlow himself, had appeared in 1848 in the ''Boston Medical & Surgical Journal'', at the time arguably a less visible publication—though it is now the ''New England Journal of Medicine.'')
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G. Kenneth Mallory
George Kenneth Mallory (February 14, 1900 – April 8, 1986) was an American pathologist chiefly remembered for describing the Mallory–Weiss syndrome, Mallory–Weiss tear.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 14 February 1900, the son of Fr ...
and
Soma Weiss
Soma Weiss (January 27, 1898 – January 31, 1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician.
Early life
Soma Weiss was born in 1898 in Bistriţa, Transylvania, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied physiology and biochemistry in Budapest. Immediate ...
described the first 15 cases of
Mallory-Weiss syndrome in 1929.
[G. K. Mallory, S. Weiss. Hemorrhages from lacerations of the cardiac orifice of the stomach due to vomiting. American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1929; 178: 506-15]
References
Further reading
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External links
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