JAMA Surgery

[2] It is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medicine and specialty publications.

[2] 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.

Additional information on the types of articles published and editorial policies is available in the journal's "Instructions for Authors".

This continues a precedent that the journal set in 2018 as the first surgery publication to break double digits in that scientometric index.

Table of contents for the first issue of Archives of Surgery , July 1920
The editorial board of JAMA Surgery celebrates its 2018 ranking as the top surgery journal in the world; Melina R. Kibbe, MD, editor-in-chief, seated at center.