The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a monthly journal of internal medicine and its subspecialties, published by Elsevier since 2016 as the official journal of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, and it holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《美国医学科学杂志》是内科及其各亚专科的月刊，2016 年起由 Elsevier 出版，是南方临床研究学会的官方刊物，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The declared field is internal medicine and its subspecialties, and the mission adds clinical, basic and education research to that base.声明的领域是内科及其各亚专科，使命表述又在临床与基础之外加上教育研究。
• Basic research is named alongside clinical work in the mission statement, and education research completes the three.使命表述把基础研究与临床工作并列，教育研究补足第三项。
• Original clinical and translational science investigations form the first article category and carry most of the primary literature.原创临床与转化科学探究是第一类稿件，承载了刊物大部分的一手文献。
• Review articles form the second, written to consolidate a field for practising physicians rather than to report new data.综述是第二类，任务是为执业医师梳理一个领域，而不是报告新数据。
• Letters to the editor form the third, and they give readers a short route into the correspondence columns.致编辑的信是第三类，为读者提供一条进入通信栏目的短路径。
• Short reviews appear as a standing feature, a compact form between the letter and the full review.短评述作为常设栏目出现，形态介于来信与完整综述之间。
• History of medicine is a named feature, and it treats the discipline's past as a subject in its own right.医学史是明列的栏目，把学科的过去当作独立题目处理。
• The science of medical education is the other named feature, and it covers teaching and assessment research.医学教育科学是另一个明列栏目，覆盖教学与考核研究。
• The mission ties the title to the Southern Regional Meeting, where the society's academic exchange takes place each year.使命把刊物与南方地区年会绑在一起，学会的学术交流每年在那里举行。
• Mentoring is written into that mission, with support for the scholarship of younger medical academics named explicitly.传帮带写进了这份使命，对青年医学学者学术工作的支持被明文点出。
• Twelve subspecialty groups on the editorial board map the coverage, from allergy through cardiology to rheumatology.编委会的 12 个亚专科分组勾出覆盖范围，从过敏到心血管一直到风湿免疫。
• Endocrinology and metabolism are represented by three board members, and nephrology by three more, which signals the journal's clinical weight.内分泌与代谢有 3 位编委，肾脏病另有 3 位，这个配置显示刊物的临床重心。
• Gastroenterology, hematology and oncology, infectious disease, neurology and pulmonary and critical care each hold board seats as well.消化、血液肿瘤、感染、神经以及呼吸与危重症也各有编委席位。
• A biostatistics core of two members sits on the board, a sign that methods review is treated as part of the editorial work.由 2 人组成的生物统计核心坐在编委会里，说明方法学审查被当作编辑工作的一部分。
• Hypertension and rheumatology and immunology complete the subspecialty map, with one seat each.高血压与风湿免疫补全这张亚专科地图，各占 1 席。
• The vision statement aims at recognition as a premier outlet for basic and clinical research and for advances in medical education.愿景表述把目标定在成为基础与临床研究以及医学教育进展的一流发表平台。

History

• The society dates the title to 1820, and its own pages call it one of the oldest medical journals in the United States.学会把本刊的起点定在 1820 年，其官网称这是美国历史最久的医学刊物之一。
• Volume numbering begins with Volume 82 in November 1827, so the first eighty-one volumes belong to the predecessor publication of 1820.本刊的卷号从 1827 年 11 月的第 82 卷起算，前 81 卷属于 1820 年那份前身刊物。
• Publication runs monthly, in two volumes of six issues each, so 2025 occupies volumes 369 and 370 and 2026 occupies 371 and 372.出版按月进行，一年两卷、每卷 6 期，2025 年占第 369 与第 370 卷，2026 年占第 371 与第 372 卷。
• J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia published the title through the twentieth century, and Elsevier took over with the 2016 volume.费城的 J. B. Lippincott 在整个 20 世纪出版本刊，Elsevier 自 2016 年卷起接手。
• The Southern Society for Clinical Investigation owns it, and the journal serves as that regional academic society's official publication.刊物归南方临床研究学会所有，是该地区性学术学会的官方出版物。
• Two identifiers appear on its records, the print 0002-9629 and the electronic 1538-2990, and the language is English.记录上带两个编号，印刷版 0002-9629 与电子版 1538-2990，语种为英文。
• Access runs on a hybrid model, and the gold open access share of published content reaches 8.03 per cent.获取走混合模式，已发表内容中金色开放获取的占比为 8.03%。
• Indexing covers Science Citation Index Expanded, MEDLINE, PubMed, OLDMEDLINE and Index Medicus.收录覆盖 Science Citation Index Expanded、MEDLINE、PubMed、OLDMEDLINE 与 Index Medicus。
• PubMed coverage reaches back to September 1965, when the journal stood at Volume 250, Number 3.PubMed 的收录上溯到 1965 年 9 月，当时刊物出到第 250 卷第 3 期。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, and the five-year figure comes to 2.5.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.5。
• Clarivate places the title in medicine, general and internal, at 94th of 336, which is the second quartile and the 72.2nd percentile.Clarivate 把本刊归入综合与内科医学类，在 336 种中排第 94 位，属第二四分位，百分位 72.2。
• The Journal Citation Indicator reads 0.44, total citations 6,305, annual output 132 papers and the cited half-life ten years.期刊引文指标为 0.44，总被引 6305 次，年发文 132 篇，被引半衰期 10 年。
• Impact factors over four recorded years read 3.462 for 2022, 2.3 for 2023, 1.8 for 2024 and 2.4 for 2025.近四年的影响因子依次为 2022 年 3.462、2023 年 2.3、2024 年 1.8 与 2025 年 2.4。
• The title has carried its present name since 1827 and has stayed in continuous publication, which is why the volume count is so far ahead of the founding date.本刊自 1827 年起沿用现名并未间断出版，卷号因此比创刊年份走得更远。

Editors

• Jesse Roman holds the post of Editor-in-Chief and works from Atlanta, Georgia.Jesse Roman 担任主编，工作地点在佐治亚州亚特兰大。
• Five deputy editors sit beneath him, each with a defined portfolio rather than a share of the general queue.其下有 5 位副编辑，每人分管一块明确的领域，而不是分摊通稿。
• Robert T. Means covers hematology and oncology.Robert T. Means 负责血液与肿瘤方向。
• Gailen D. Marshall, Jr. covers allergy and immunology.Gailen D. Marshall 负责过敏与免疫方向。
• Licy Lorena Yanes Cardozo covers endocrinology and women's health.Licy Lorena Yanes Cardozo 负责内分泌与女性健康方向。
• Omar Sims covers gastroenterology and epidemiology, and Jianbo Qing covers nephrology with a basic research remit.Omar Sims 负责消化与流行病学，Jianbo Qing 负责肾脏病并兼顾基础研究。
• Christina Halcomb serves as Managing Editor and Kara Looney as Assistant Managing Editor, which keeps the editorial office in two pairs of hands.Christina Halcomb 任执行编辑，Kara Looney 任助理执行编辑，编辑部因此由两组人手维持。
• About twenty board members are grouped by subspecialty across twelve headings, so a manuscript reaches a reader who works in its own field.约 20 位编委按 12 个亚专科标题分组，稿件因此会落到同行手里。
• Two biostatisticians hold the core seats, Shesh Rai of the University of Louisville and Shengping Yang of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.生物统计核心的两个席位由路易斯维尔大学的 Shesh Rai 与彭宁顿生物医学研究中心的 Shengping Yang 担任。
• Samuel Dagogo-Jack at Tennessee, C. Mel Wilcox at Orlando Health and Monica M. Farley at Emory are among the named members.田纳西大学的 Samuel Dagogo-Jack、Orlando Health 的 C. Mel Wilcox 与埃默里大学的 Monica M. Farley 都在名单上。
• Four emeritus editors retain a title on the masthead, David W. Ploth, Kent A. Kirchner, Manuel Martinez-Maldonado and Suzanne Oparil.四位荣休编辑在刊头保留头衔，即 David W. Ploth、Kent A. Kirchner、Manuel Martinez-Maldonado 与 Suzanne Oparil。
• Manuscripts are submitted through Editorial Manager, and the publisher's side of the operation is run from Elsevier's Philadelphia office.稿件经 Editorial Manager 递交，出版方一侧的工作由 Elsevier 的费城办公室承担。
• Ash Allan serves as publisher and Mahalakshmi Kathirreshan as journal manager on the Elsevier side.Elsevier 一侧的出版人由 Ash Allan 担任，期刊经理为 Mahalakshmi Kathirreshan。
• Handling follows the subspecialty map rather than a single desk, and letters to the editor are channelled separately from research submissions.稿件按亚专科地图分派而不是集中到一个桌面，致编辑的信与研究稿分走两条通道。