The New England Journal of Medicine

The journal The New England Journal of Medicine (in short: New Engl J Med or NEJM ) is one of the most respected medical journals. The Journal is published weekly in English and covers all branches of medicine, with some emphasis in the field of internal medicine. Editor of the NEJM, the Massachusetts Medical Society. Throughout its history repeats pioneering medical work has been published in this journal.

At the beginning of each issue are the original article. Then follows a section images from the medicine. After summarizing articles providing an overview of a problem area come. All items are checked before the advent of peer reviewers in the peer -review process. In addition, the journal contains medical case descriptions (case records ) from the Massachusetts General Hospital, one or more editorials and letters to the editor, and for a short time as an online supplements the so-called "Videos in Clinical Medicine ", shown in which frequently used in clinical practice procedures.

The abstracts of the papers are available to non-subscribers online, the full texts until six months after publication, starting from 1990. Subscribers have access to all the full texts until 1990. The online archive of the journal includes all previous vintages from 1989 back to the foundation in 1812 and for institutional subscribers, freely available, only limited for individual subscribers, and for Nichtabonennten only against payment. The whole archive to 1989 includes self-reported spending 8498 with 486 434 pages, 145 969 articles and over 75,000 images. According to ISI Web of Knowledge Factor was in 2012, the Impact at 51.658, so is the magazine in the category of general and internal medicine in the first place (out of 151 journals).

The NEJM achieved with around 200,000 copies sold, the highest circulation of any medical journals. In addition, the online version of the journal reaches about 300,000 to 400,000 readers weekly.

History

1812 founded the working at Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon John Collins Warren, the quarterly New England Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Collateral Branches of Science. The first article Remarks on angina pectoris was from Warren. The magazine was called at short notice in 1827 New England Medical Review and Journal. 1828, the journal was combined with the weekly Boston Medical Intelligencer also the weekly Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. 1914, the journal was the official organ of Medical Societies of the U.S. states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. It was finally sold in 1928 for the price of one dollar to the Massachusetts Medical Society and received again the name New England Journal of Medicine.

Important to publish the journal include:

• A first report of Sidney Farber and colleagues in 1948 on the first successful treatment of hitherto incurable leukemia in children: Temporary draw sion in acute leukemia in children produced by folic acid antagonist, 4- Aminopteroyl - Glutamic Acid ( aminopterin );
• Work on the transport of fats in lipoproteins and disorders of lipid metabolism.