A medical journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that communicates medical information to physicians, other health professionals . Journals that cover many medical specialties are sometimes called general medical journals .
6-631: Cardiovascular Research is a medical journal published monthly by the Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology . The journal publishes original and review articles from all areas of basic, translational, and clinical cardiovascular disease. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the impact factor was 10.787 in 2020, ranking the journal 12th out of 138 journals in
12-482: A cardiology journal is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Medical journal The first medical journals were general medical journals. The first English-language general medical journal was Medicina Curiosa , established in 1684, but it ceased publication after only two issues. The first medical journal to be published in
18-721: The New England Journal of Medicine . The BMJ ' s web editor, Tony Delamothe, has described the BMJ as a general medical journal. The Medical Journal of Australia is the only general medical journal in Australia, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal has been called the leading general medical journal in Canada. Richard Smith , the former editor of the medical journal
24-714: The United Kingdom was Medical Essays and Observations , established in 1731 and published in Edinburgh ; the first to be published in the United States was The Medical Repository , established in 1797. Among the oldest general medical journals that are still in publication today are The Lancet , established in 1823, and the New England Journal of Medicine , established in 1812. Specialty -specific medical journals were first introduced in
30-939: The 'Cardiac & Cardiovascular systems' category. The editor-in-chief is Tomasz J. Guzik . The journal was established in 1967 by the British Medical Association on behalf of the British Cardiovascular Society , with John P. Shillingford as the founding editor-in-chief. In 1995, ownership of the journal moved to the European Society of Cardiology and Elsevier became the publisher. John P. Shillingford 1967-1974 R. J. Linden 1975-1982 Peter Sleight 1983-1991 David J. Hearse 1992-1995 Michiel J. Janse 1995- 2003 Hans Michael Piper 2003-2013 Karin Sipido 2013-2018 Tomasz J. Guzik 2018- This article about
36-479: The early 20th century. In 1999, Medscape launched Medscape General Medicine , which became the world's first online-only general medical journal. Journals that are recognized as general medical journals include The Lancet , the New England Journal of Medicine , and the Annals of Internal Medicine . In 2009, the three highest-ranked general medical journals by impact factor were JAMA , The Lancet , and
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