[1]: 75 [2][3] The editor in chief of the journal is Sadis Matalon (University of Alabama at Birmingham).

[4][5] The journal's first managing editor, who served to his death in 1946, was Dr. Donald R.

[1]: 156 [6][7] Among the cadre of editors at the journal's inception were William Henry Howell, Lafayette Mendel,[8] and John Macleod.

[9][10] Other notable people who have served on the journal's editorial board include John Jacob Abel (c. 1935),[11] Ernest William Goodpasture (c.1938).

[12] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 37.312 Internet Archive page set (values in table linked to specific pages)