The Journal of Hand Surgery - American Volume
| The Journal of Hand Surgery - American Volume
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| description | Peer-reviewed journal |
| Area of Expertise | Medicine and surgery |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Elsevier ( United States of America ) |
| First edition | 1976 |
| Frequency of publication | 12 issues a year |
| Impact Factor | 1,667 (2014) |
| Editor-in-chief | Brent Graham |
| Web link | Website of the magazine |
| ISSN (print) | 0363-5023 |
| ISSN (online) | 1531-6564 |
The Journal of Hand Surgery - American Volume , abbreviated J. Hand Surg. At the. Vol. , Is a scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand . The journal was founded in 1976 under the name The Journal of Hand Surgery and changed it to The Journal of Hand Surgery - American Volume in 1984 . In 2006 the journal was merged with the Journal of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand . It appears twelve issues a year. Papers are published dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, and pathophysiology of diseases of the upper extremities.
The impact factor in 2014 was 1.667. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks 89th out of 198 journals in the surgery category and 31st out of 72 journals in the orthopedics category.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2014 Journal Citation Reports, Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).
- ↑ website of the journal ; accessed on January 24, 2016.