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 .
7-743: There are thirteen medical journals published by the JAMA Network , a division of the American Medical Association (AMA). The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) , along with JAMA Network Open and eleven specialty journals, compose the JAMA Network family of journals. The journals share a common website, archives and other means of access (such as RSS feeds), have common policies on publishing and public relations, and pool their editorial resources in producing
14-504: The AMA Manual of Style . They also operate a common webpage, For The Media , that provides free access to news releases about the latest research published in AMA journals to credentialed journalists prior to official publication dates (pre- embargo content), as well as access to all related pre-embargo (pre-publication) news releases and video news release scripts. Before they were rebranded as
21-686: The New England Journal of Medicine . The BMJ ' s web editor, Tony Delamothe, has described the BMJ as a general medical journal. The Medical Journal of Australia is the only general medical journal in Australia, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal has been called the leading general medical journal in Canada. Richard Smith , the former editor of the medical journal
28-686: The United Kingdom was Medical Essays and Observations , established in 1731 and published in Edinburgh ; the first to be published in the United States was The Medical Repository , established in 1797. Among the oldest general medical journals that are still in publication today are The Lancet , established in 1823, and the New England Journal of Medicine , established in 1812. Specialty -specific medical journals were first introduced in
35-564: The JAMA Network in 2013, the AMA's stable of journals were referred to as JAMA and the Archives journals (for example, this is how the AMA Manual of Style formerly referred to them), because the specialty journals used to have titles on the pattern of Archives of [Specialty] . JAMA Network recently created four new journals: JAMA Oncology in 2015, JAMA Cardiology in 2016, JAMA Network Open in 2018, and JAMA Health Forum in 2021 As of 2023,
42-585: The Network has adopted a new policy whereby any manuscript accepted for publication may be deposited by the author into a "public repository of their choosing" on the day that the paper is published by the Network, which remains the repository of record. Medical journal The first medical journals were general medical journals. The first English-language general medical journal was Medicina Curiosa , established in 1684, but it ceased publication after only two issues. The first medical journal to be published in
49-475: The early 20th century. In 1999, Medscape launched Medscape General Medicine , which became the world's first online-only general medical journal. Journals that are recognized as general medical journals include The Lancet , the New England Journal of Medicine , and the Annals of Internal Medicine . In 2009, the three highest-ranked general medical journals by impact factor were JAMA , The Lancet , and
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