JAMA Pediatrics
JAMA Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association. It covers all aspects of pediatrics. The journal was established in 1911 as the American Journal of Diseases of Children and renamed in 1994 to Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, before obtaining its current title in 2013.
| Discipline | Pediatrics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Dimitri A. Christakis |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, American Journal of Diseases of Children |
| History | 1911–present |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (United States) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 26.796 (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | JAMA Pediatr. |
| Indexing | |
JAMA Pediatrics | |
| CODEN | APAMEB |
| ISSN | 2168-6203 (print) 2168-6211 (web) |
| LCCN | 95642320 |
| OCLC no. | 28958056 |
American Journal of Diseases of Children | |
| ISSN | 0096-8994 |
A.M.A. American Journal of Diseases of Children | |
| ISSN | 2374-2941 |
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine | |
| ISSN | 1072-4710 |
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The journal's founding editor-in-chief in 1911 was Abraham Jacobi. The articles in that first volume of the journal were mostly observational studies focused on the major causes of illness and death in children at the start of the 20th century.
The current editor-in-chief is Dimitri A. Christakis (University of Washington). According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2021 impact factor is 26.796, ranking it 2nd out of 130 journals in the category "Pediatrics".