Annals of Internal Medicine

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Annals of Internal Medicine

description Peer-reviewed journal
Area of ​​Expertise medicine
language English
publishing company American College of Physicians ( USA )
First edition 1927
Frequency of publication 24 times a year
Editor Christine Laine
Web link Website
ISSN (print)

Annals of Internal Medicine , or Ann. Intern. Med. , Is a scientific journal published by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The first issue appeared in July 1927. In the first decades the magazine appeared monthly, since July 1988 two issues a month appear. Original papers, reviews, guidelines for medical practice, and commentaries on clinical practice, public health , medical education, ethics, and research methods are published. The magazine provides open access to selected articles, with developing countries having complete free access to the magazine.

The impact factor in 2014 was 17.81. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks fourth out of 153 journals in the general and internal medicine category.

The editor-in-chief is Christine Laine , who is employed by the magazine and who holds the position of Senior Vice President at the ACP .

The journal is indexed in: BIOSIS Previews, CAB Direct, Chemical Abstracts Service , CINAHL, Current Contents (Clinical Medicine & Live Science), EMBASE , Index Medicus , MEDLINE , PubMed , Science Citation Index , Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b website of the journal ; Retrieved August 24, 2012.
  2. 2014 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).