Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, J. Bone Joint Surg abbreviated. Am., Is a scientific journal published by the journal Bone and Joint Surgery -Verlag on behalf of the American Orthopaedic Association. The magazine was founded in 1889 under the name American Journal of Orthopedic Surgery. In 1919 the name was shortened to the Journal of Orthopedic Surgery, which was amended in 1922 in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. In 1948 there was a division in an American and a British edition. Since 1954, the magazine heard about the publisher of the American Orthopaedic Association and currently appears with 24 issues a year. In September 2011 it was decided to separate the two organizational issues, the British edition took a new name ( The Bone & Joint Journal ), and the American edition renounced the appendix " American Volume", where Am in the acronym nor the ". " maintained. There are published works that deal with surgical and orthopedic issues.

The Impact Factor was in 2012 at 3,234. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the Journal with this impact factor in the category of surgery at 19 out of 199 journals in the category and orthopedics is performed in third out of 65 journals.