NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (ISSN: 0028-4793)

Description

The New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med or NEJM) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. It is also the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world. It was founded by Dr. John Collins Warren in 1812 as a quarterly called The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery. In 1828, it became a weekly, and was renamed The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; one hundred years later, it took on its present name. It publishes editorials, papers on original research, widely-cited review articles, correspondences, case reports, and has a special section called "Images in Clinical Medicine". Authors have included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Hans Zinsser, and Lewis Thomas. One of its early editors, Jerome V. C. Smith, resigned in 1857 to assume his duties as mayor of the City of Boston. The website for the George Polk Awards noted that its 1977 award to the New England Journal of Medicine "provided the first significant mainstream visibility for a publication that would achieve enormous attention and prestige in the ensuing decades"[1] The journal usually has the highest impact factor of the journals of clinical medicine (including the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet); in 2005, the impact factor was 44.016, according to Journal Citation Reports.
Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey M. Drazen
E-mail: letter-AT-nejm.org
Phone: +617 734 9800
Executive Editor Gregory D. Curfman
Phone: +617 734 9800
Affiliation to Organization MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY
Editorial Office Address New England Journal of Medicine
10 Shattuck Street, MA 02115 Boston, USA
E-mail: nejm-AT-emd-germany.de, comments-AT-nejm.org
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society
860 Winter Street, Waltham Woods Corporate Center, MA 02451-1 Waltham, USA