JAMA Surgery
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Edited by | Melina Kibbe |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Archives of Surgery |
| History | 1920-present |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (United States) |
| 16.681 (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | JAMA Surg. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 2168-6254 (print) 2168-6262 (web) |
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JAMA Surgery is an international peer-reviewed journal, which began publication in 1920. It is the official publication of the Association of VA Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and the Surgical Outcomes Club. It is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medicine and specialty publications. Its current (2022) editor-in-chief is Melina Kibbe at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Published online weekly, every Wednesday, JAMA Surgery is also published in print/online issues 12 times a year. In 2021, the journal logged over 3.8 million web sessions and more than 4.7 million article views and downloads. Without any author fees, all research articles are made free access online 12 months after publication on the website. In addition, the online version is freely available or nearly so to institutions in developing countries through the World Health Organization's HINARI program.