The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
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| description | Peer-reviewed journal |
| Area of Expertise | Medicine and surgery |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Journal Bone Joint Surgery ( United States of America ) |
| First edition | 1889 |
| Frequency of publication | 24 issues a year |
| Web link | Website of the journal |
| ISSN (print) | 0021-9355 |
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery , abbreviated J. Bone Joint Surg. At the. , is a scientific journal published by the Journal Bone Joint Surgery on behalf of the American Orthopedic Association . The journal was founded in 1889 under the name American Journal of Orthopedic Surgery . In 1919 the name was shortened to Journal of Orthopedic Surgery , which was changed to The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery as early as 1922 . In 1948 there was a split into an American and a British edition. The magazine has been owned by the American Orthopedic Association since 1954 and is currently published 24 times a year. In September 2011 it was decided to separate the two editions from an organizational point of view, the British edition took on a new name ( The Bone & Joint Journal ) and the American edition dispensed with the appendix "American Volume", whereby the abbreviation still includes "Am. " preserved. Works are published that deal with surgical-orthopedic issues.
The impact factor in 2014 was 5,280. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks sixth out of 198 journals in the surgery category and first out of 72 journals in the orthopedics category.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the journal ; Retrieved February 20, 2014.
- ↑ 2014 Journal Citation Reports, Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).