The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is an American general medical journal.

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History

The journal was founded in 1820 as the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences^[1] 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,^[1] and helped make it one of the most important American medical journals of the 19th century.

In 1984, the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation became the journal's sponsor and Emory University has close ties to the journal with the vice chair of the Department of Medicine at Emory, Manuel Martinez-Maldonado, as the editor in chief of the journal, and a past president of SSCI.^[1]

In 1994, 21 percent of submissions came from outside the United States.^[1]

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:^[1]

• Leo Buerger "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 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The 2006 impact factor was 1.355, with a rank of 41st of 103 medical journals.^[2] As of 2007, the Edixtor-in-Chief is David W. Ploth (Charleston, South Carolina, USA).

Notable contributors

• Samuel George Morton, published his first medical essay in the 1825 journal.^[3]

References

• John S. Billings (1876). "Literature and Institutions", A Century of American Medicine, 1776-1876. H.C. Lea, 289–366 (pp. 332–333). 
• J.A. Pittman; D.M. Miller (1996). "The Southern Society for Clinical Investigation at 50: The End of the Beginning". The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 311: 248–253.