Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

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History

The journal was established in January 1991, with Mosby, now an imprint of Elsevier, as the publisher. The founding editor-in-chief was Robert Cofield (Mayo Clinic). In 1997, Robert Neviaser (George Washington University Medical Center) took over as editor-in-chief. In 2008, Bill Mallon (Triangle Orthopaedic Associates, Durham, North Carolina) was named as the third editor-in-chief. [1] John E (Jed) Kuhn was named as the fourth editor-in-chief in 2025. Originally the journal was published bimonthly. In 2010, it began publishing 8 issues per year, increased in 2012 to monthly.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 2.289, ranking it 18th out of 72 journals in the category "Orthopedics", [2] 17th out of 81 journals in the category "Sport Science", [3] and 60th out of 198 journals in the category "Surgery". [4]

References

  1. Copeland, Stephen (2007). "History" . Retrieved 2013-02-24.
  2. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Orthopedics". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
  3. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sport Science". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
  4. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Surgery". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.