JAMA Ophthalmology
Last updated ISSN 2168-6165
JAMA Ophthalmology is published by American Medical Association in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in JAMA Ophthalmology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Retinal Diseases and Treatments
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Retinal and Optic Conditions
- Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
- Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome
- Retinal and Macular Surgery
- Intraocular Surgery and Lenses
- Ocular Oncology and Treatments
- Retinal Imaging and Analysis
- Corneal surgery and disorders
Key facts
| Publisher | American Medical Association |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2168-6165, 2168-6173 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,265 |
| Publishing since | 1973 |
| Journal website | jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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