JAMA
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| Discipline | Medicine |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo |
| Publication details | |
Former names | Transactions of the American Medical Association; Journal of the American Medical Association |
| History | 1883–present |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (United States) |
| Frequency | 48/year |
| Delayed (6 months) | |
| 65.4 (2025) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | JAMA |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | JAMAAP |
| ISSN | 0098-7484 (print) 1538-3598 (web) |
| LCCN | 82643544 |
| OCLC no. | 1124917 |
Until 1960: | |
| ISSN | 0002-9955 |
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JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association. It publishes original research, reviews, and editorials covering all aspects of biomedicine. The journal was established in 1883 with Nathan Smith Davis as the founding editor. Its publisher describes it as the most widely circulated general medical journal in the world, with more than 101,000 print recipients, more than 2.9 million recipients of electronic tables of contents and alerts, and over 29 million annual website visits. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of the University of California, San Francisco became the journal editor-in-chief on July 1, 2022, succeeding Howard Bauchner of Boston University.
According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2025 impact factor is 65.4, ranking it 4th out of 336 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal". JAMA Network reports that the journal accepts 10% of more than 11,500 annual submissions and 4% of more than 5,400 research manuscripts.