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JAMA Surgery

JAMA Surgery is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand JAMA Surgery rather than just read about it. In short: JAMA Surgery is an international peer-reviewed journal, which began publication in 1920. It is the official publication of the Association of VA Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and the Surgical Outcomes Club.

Key takeaways

JAMA Surgery belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect JAMA Surgery to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of JAMA Surgery from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

JAMA Surgery is an international peer-reviewed journal, which began publication in 1920. It is the official publication of the Association of VA Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and the Surgical Outcomes Club. It is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medicine and specialty publications. Its current (2022) editor-in-chief is Melina Kibbe at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published online weekly, every Wednesday, JAMA Surgery is also published in print/online issues 12 times a year. In 2021, the journal logged over 3.8 million web sessions and more than 4.7 million article views and downloads. Without any author fees, all research articles are made free access online 12 months after publication on the website. In addition, the online version is freely available or nearly so to institutions in developing countries through the World Health Organization's HINARI program.

History In July 1920, the first issue of Archives of Surgery was published by the American Medical Association. William J. Mayo, MD, who was a member of the editorial board and authored the inaugural editorial, indicated that Archives of Surgery would follow the character and scope of its sister journals, Archives of Internal Medicine, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Diseases of Children. Mayo also commented that Archives of Surgery would not compete with the other two prominent surgical journals that existed at the time: Annals of Surgery, established in 1885, and Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, established in 1905. The trustees who founded Archives of Surgery believed that creating this new surgical journal would help alleviate the publication burden of the other two surgical journals while also creating a "sphere of its own" that would be "sufficiently useful to the profession to warrant its entering the field". One of the most notable changes for Archives of Surgery occurred in January 2013 when the name was changed to JAMA Surgery. This name change occurred across the entire JAMA Network.

Editors-in-chief, 1920 to present

Dean Lewis, MD; 1920–1940 Waltman Walters, MD; 1941–1942, 1946–1961 Lester Dragstedt, MD; 1943–1945 J. Garrett Allen, MD; 1962–1969 Richard Warren, MD; 1970–1976 Arthur Baue, MD; 1977–1988 Julie Ann Freischlag, MD; 2005–2014 Melina Kibbe, MD; 2015–present

Editorial information The acceptance rate for JAMA Surgery is 14% with a median time to first decision in 10 days and 38 days with review. All articles are published online first. Additional information on the types of articles published and editorial policies is available in the journal's "Instructions for Authors". JAMA Surgery is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. It is also included on the University Grants Commission of India list of approved journals.

World ranking

According to the annual Journal Citation Reports, the 2021 impact factor for JAMA Surgery is 16.681, making it the highest-ranking surgery journal in the world. This continues a precedent that the journal set in 2018 as the first surgery publication to break double digits in that scientometric index.

See also List of American Medical Association journals

References and notes

External links Official website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with JAMA Surgery

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what JAMA Surgery claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to JAMA Surgery before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about JAMA Surgery ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of JAMA Surgery

In research: JAMA Surgery appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses JAMA Surgery in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: JAMA Surgery is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic journals established in 1920, Academic publishing, American Medical Association academic journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for JAMA Surgery outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study JAMA Surgery in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what JAMA Surgery means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain JAMA Surgery out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is JAMA Surgery in simple terms?

Why does JAMA Surgery matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study JAMA Surgery?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on JAMA Surgery.