The ''Western Journal of Medicine'' was a
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 ...
. It was established in 1856 as the ''Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California''. It was renamed ''California State Journal of Medicine'' in 1902 and volume numbering was restarted at 1. In 1924 it was renamed ''California and Western Medicine'' and in 1946 ''California Medicine''. In 1974, it obtained its final title, ''Western Journal of Medicine'', which was styled as ''wjm'' from 1999 on.
In 1985, the journal absorbed ''Arizona Medicine''. It ceased publication in 2002 because it was not financially viable any more.
The journal was lastly published by the
BMJ Group
BMJ (branded as BMJ Group until 2013) is a British publisher of medical journals. Established in 1840, the company is owned by the British Medical Association.
Publications
* 1840: '' Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal'' (later renamed th ...
with Michael Wilkes as its
editor-in-chief.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal was abstracted and indexed by
EBSCO databases
EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of very many types around the ...
,
Gale databases,
MEDLINE,
ProQuest,
PubMed, and
Scopus.
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References
External links
Free full-text journal archive at PubMed Central
BMJ Group academic journals
English-language journals
General medical journals
Open access journals
Publications established in 1856
Publications disestablished in 2002
Monthly journals
Defunct journals of the United States