JAMA

*The Journal of the American Medical Association*
Discipline	Medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
Publication details
Former name(s)	Transactions of the American Medical Association; Councilor's Bulletin; Bulletin of the American Medical Association; Journal of the American Medical Association
History	1883–present
Publisher	American Medical Association (United States)
Frequency	48/year
Open access	Free access to research articles after six months
Impact factor	120.7 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	JAMA
Indexing;
CODEN	JAMAAP
ISSN	0098-7484 (print); 1538-3598 (web);
LCCN	82643544
OCLC no.	1124917
	Until 1960:
ISSN	0002-9955;
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association. It publishes original research, reviews, and editorials covering all aspects of biomedicine. The journal was established in 1883 with Nathan Smith Davis as the founding editor.^[1] Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of the University of California San Francisco became the journal editor-in-chief on July 1, 2022, succeeding Howard Bauchner of Boston University.^[2]

According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2022 impact factor is 120.7, ranking it 3rd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".^[3]

^ "AMA history". The American Medical Association. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
^ Asplund, Jon (April 11, 2002). "AMA hires first person of color as JAMA editor-in-chief". Crain's Chicago Business. Archived from the original on November 5, 2023. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
^ "Web of Science Master Journal List - WoS MJL by Clarivate". mjl.clarivate.com. Retrieved February 1, 2024.

[1] "AMA history". The American Medical Association. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2020.

[2] Asplund, Jon (April 11, 2002). "AMA hires first person of color as JAMA editor-in-chief". Crain's Chicago Business. Archived from the original on November 5, 2023. Retrieved December 17, 2023.

[3] "Web of Science Master Journal List - WoS MJL by Clarivate". mjl.clarivate.com. Retrieved February 1, 2024.

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