JAMA Surgery
Last updated ISSN 2168-6254
JAMA Surgery 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 Surgery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Surgical Simulation and Training
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
Key facts
| Publisher | American Medical Association |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2168-6254, 2168-6262 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,382 |
| Publishing since | 1959 |
| Journal website | archsurg.jamanetwork.com/journal.aspx |
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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