The New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal owned and published by the Massachusetts Medical Society through NEJM Group, founded in 1812 and the world's oldest continuously published medical periodical, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 84.5《新英格兰医学杂志》是由马萨诸塞州医学会通过 NEJM Group 拥有并出版的周刊同行评审综合医学期刊，1812 年创刊，是世界上最古老的持续出版医学期刊，2025 年影响因子为 84.5。

Scope

• Its mission is to publish the best research and information at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice, in formats that inform health care practice and improve patient outcomes其使命是刊载生物医学科学与临床实践交界处最优质的研究与信息，以有益于医疗实践并改善患者结局的形式呈现。
• It delivers peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, researchers and the global medical community该刊向医师、教育者、研究者与全球医学界提供同行评审研究与互动式临床内容。
• Each issue contains a wide variety of article types, from original research reports to reviews, editorials, clinical cases and images in clinical medicine每期包含多样的文章类型，从原创研究报告到综述、社论、临床病例与临床医学影像。
• It publishes at least one and usually several research reports per issue with implications for current clinical practice该刊每期至少有一篇、通常数篇对当前临床实践有影响的研究报告。
• More than half of research articles submitted and one-third of papers published originate from outside the United States其投稿的研究文章中逾半数、发表的文章中三分之一来自美国以外。
• Articles of immediate importance to global and public health are made freely available upon publication, and it partners with Research4Life to grant immediate free access to low-income countries对全球与公共卫生具有紧迫重要性的文章在发表时即免费开放，该刊并与 Research4Life 合作，向低收入国家提供即时免费访问。
• It publishes continuously online with 48 weekly issues and may designate articles for online publication in advance of their issue该刊在线连续出版，每年 48 期周报，并可将部分文章指定为提前于刊期在线发表。

History

• It traces its origin to 1812, when John Collins Warren and James Jackson established the first medical journal in New England as the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Medical Science该刊可追溯至 1812 年，John Collins Warren 与 James Jackson 创办了新英格兰首份医学期刊《新英格兰医学与外科学及医学科学相关分支杂志》（New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Medical Science）。^[1]
• In 1846 it documented the first public demonstration of ether anaesthesia1846 年该刊记录了乙醚麻醉的首次公开演示。
• In 1921 it merged with the Boston Medical Intelligencer to become the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, began weekly publication, and was purchased by the Massachusetts Medical Society for one dollar1921 年该刊与《波士顿医学情报》（Boston Medical Intelligencer）合并为《波士顿医学与外科学杂志》（Boston Medical and Surgical Journal），开始按周出版，并由马萨诸塞州医学会以 1 美元购得。
• It was renamed the New England Journal of Medicine in 1928该刊于 1928 年更名为《新英格兰医学杂志》。^[2]
• It published the first full description of a spinal disk rupture in 1934 and the first successes in treating early childhood leukaemia in 1948该刊 1934 年首次完整描述了椎间盘破裂，1948 年记录了治疗早期儿童白血病的最初成功。
• It won the Polk Award for journalistic excellence in 1978, launched NEJM.org and digitisation in 1996, and formed NEJM Group in 2012该刊 1978 年获波尔克新闻卓越奖，1996 年上线 NEJM.org 并启动数字化，2012 年组建 NEJM Group。
• It receives more than 16,000 research and other submissions each year, and about five percent of original research submissions are published该刊每年收到逾 16,000 篇研究及其他投稿，约百分之五的原创研究投稿得以发表。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Eric J. Rubin, a tuberculosis researcher and infectious disease physician who joined NEJM as an associate editor in 2012 and was appointed editor-in-chief in September 2019现任主编为 Eric J. Rubin，结核病研究者与感染科医师，2012 年以副编辑身份加入该刊，2019 年 9 月被任命为主编。
• He is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and sees patients at Brigham and Women's Hospital他是哈佛医学院医学教授、哈佛陈曾熙公共卫生学院兼任教授，并在布莱根妇女医院接诊患者。
• Under his leadership NEJM Group launched NEJM Evidence in 2022 and NEJM AI in 2023在其领导下，NEJM Group 于 2022 年推出 NEJM Evidence、2023 年推出 NEJM AI。
• The Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital are edited by Eric S. Rosenberg and a team of associate editors including David M. Dudzinski, Meridale V. Baggett, Daniel Restrepo and Dennis C. Sgroi马萨诸塞州总医院病例记录由 Eric S. Rosenberg 与一个副编辑团队编辑，成员包括 David M. Dudzinski、Meridale V. Baggett、Daniel Restrepo 与 Dennis C. Sgroi。
• Each submission is evaluated for originality, quality and results by the executive deputy editor and the senior editorial team每篇投稿均由执行副编辑与高级编辑团队就原创性、质量与结果进行评估。
• The journal uses rigorous editorial, peer and statistical review, offers presubmission inquiry and rapid review options, and typically completes initial in-house review in less than one week该刊采用严格的编辑、同行与统计评审，提供投稿前咨询与快速评审通道，内部初审通常在一周内完成。
• Its editorial offices are in Boston and Waltham, Massachusetts, and more than one million readers from nearly every country read it each week其编辑部位于马萨诸塞州波士顿与沃尔瑟姆，每周有来自几乎每个国家的逾百万读者阅读。