''JAMA Ophthalmology'' (formerly ''Archives of Ophthalmology'') is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of

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. The

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is Neil M. Bressler (

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). It is published by the

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, with which it has been affiliated since 1929.

History

The journal was established in New York in 1869 as the ''Archives of Ophthalmology and Otology'', with a simultaneous German language version published in

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, Germany, as ''Archiv für Augen- und Ohrenheilkunde''; sometimes articles would be slightly different. The editors were Hermann Knapp (New York), who practiced both ophthalmology and

otology Otology is a branch of medicine which studies normal and pathological anatomy and physiology of the ear (hearing and vestibular sensory systems and related structures and functions) as well as their diseases, diagnosis and treatment. Otologi ...

, with greater emphasis on the eye, and the otologist Salomon Moos (Heidelberg). The journal obtained its current name in 2013.

Naming History

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 8.253, ranking it 3rd out of 61 titles in the category "Ophthalmology".

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* {{Authority control Ophthalmology journals American Medical Association academic journals Monthly journals English-language journals Publications established in 1869

History

Naming History

Abstracting and indexing

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