JAMA Pediatrics

JAMA Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.^[1] It covers all aspects of pediatrics. The journal was established in 1911 as the American Journal of Diseases of Children and renamed in 1994 to Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, before obtaining its current title in 2013.

DisciplinePediatrics

LanguageEnglish

EditedbyDimitri A. Christakis

Former names

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, American Journal of Diseases of Children

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JAMA Pediatrics

Discipline	Pediatrics
Language	English
Edited by	Dimitri A. Christakis
Publication details
Former names	Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, American Journal of Diseases of Children
History	1911–present
Publisher	American Medical Association (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	24.7 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	JAMA Pediatr.
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JAMA Pediatrics
CODEN	APAMEB
ISSN	2168-6203 (print) 2168-6211 (web)
LCCN	95642320
OCLC no.	28958056
American Journal of Diseases of Children
ISSN	0096-8994
A.M.A. American Journal of Diseases of Children
ISSN	2374-2941
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
ISSN	1072-4710
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archives

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The journal's founding editor-in-chief in 1911 was Abraham Jacobi. The articles in that first volume of the journal were mostly observational studies focused on the major causes of illness and death in children at the start of the 20th century.^[2]

The current editor-in-chief is Dimitri A. Christakis (University of Washington). According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2023 impact factor is 24.7, ranking it 1st in the category "Pediatrics".^[3]