7 topmost General Medical Journals in the World

New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)

Coverpage of the January 1, 1814 of the NEJM

Year of first Published: 1812, renamed  the New England Journal of Medicine in 1928

Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society

Country: USA

Impact factor: 54.420 (2013)
Citation Count: 1,494,851 (Microsoft Academic Search)

Website http://www.nejm.org/

Circulation: 600, 000 people/week in 177 countries read it each. There is print and online version. Free  online access is available in nearly 120 lower-income countries.

Citation: Most cited medical journal in the world.

Lancet     

Year of first Published:  1823 by Thomas Wakley

Cover of the first issue of The Lancet-1823

Publisher: Currently owned by Elsevier since 1991

Country: The Netherlands

Impact factor: 39.207(2013)

Website: http://www.thelancet.com
Citation Count:1,402,807 (Microsoft Academic Search)

Circulation: Weekly Print and Online

British Medical Journal(BMJ)

Year first published: 3 October 1840

Publisher:British Medical Association

Country: United Kingdom

Impact factor: 16.378(2013)

Circulation: Weekly, print & online
Open Access: Yes
Citation Count:  544,688  (Microsoft Academic Search)

Website: http://www.bmj.com   

PLoS Medicine
Year first Published: 2004

By Image Credit: Lizzy Parisotto, PLoS. Orange: Umberto Salvagnin 2008. 

Food Aid: New Ways Merka at Wikimedia 2008.

 Pregnant woman and child: Valarie Apperson at Flickr.com 2008. 

Hands with Drugs: Brendan Bannon 2007. Pills/leaf: Dr. Johannes Friesen. 

Hospital: Rod Escombe. X-ray: Ninette Amariglio. [CC-BY-2.5 

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

Publisher: Public Library of Science
Country: USA
Impact factor: 14.0 (2013)
Circulation: Weekly, Online only
Open Access: Yes
Citation Count: (Microsoft Academic Search)

Website:   http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine






Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

Published year: 1883, with Nathan Smith Davis as the founding editor

Publisher: American Medical Association

Country: USA

Impact factor: 30.387(2013)

Circulation: Weekly, print & online
Citation Count: 788,916 (Microsoft Academic Search)

Website: http://jamanetwork.com      

  

Journal of Experimental Medicine

 Year of first Published:  Established in 1896 at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine by William H. Welch,US

Publisher: Rockefeller University Press

 Portrait of William H. Welch

Country of publication: USA

Impact factor: 13.912(2013)
Citation Count: 774,868 (Microsoft Academic Search)

Website: http://jem.rupress.org/

Circulation: Monthly, Open Access

               

Journal of Clinical Investigation      

Year of first Published:  1924

Publisher: American Society for Clinical Investigation

Country: United States

Impact factor: 13.765(2013)

Website: http://www.jci.org/

Circulation: Weekly

Open Access: Yes

Circulation: Bimonthly , free access

               

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