Annals of Family Medicine

Annals of Family Medicine is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in May/June 2003. It publishes original research from the clinical, biomedical, social and health services sciences, as well as contributions on methodology and theory, selected reviews, essays, and invited editorials. The editor-in-chief is Caroline Richardson (University of Michigan). In 2014, the journal had an impact factor of 5.434.[1]

Annals of Family Medicine
DisciplineFamily medicine
LanguageEnglish
Edited byCaroline Richardson
Publication details
History2003–present
FrequencyBimonthly
5.434 (2014)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Ann. Fam. Med.
Indexing
ISSN1544-1709 (print)
1544-1717 (web)
OCLC no.1050723710
Links

The Annals published its first issue in 2003.[2] The founding editor, who served as editor for 17 years through 2018, was Kurt Stange.[3] The Annals was founded as an "unprecedented collaborative effort by 6 family medicine organizations coming together to support a forum for research and the intellectual development of the field [and is] overseen by an independent board of representatives from these 6 organizations: the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Board of Family Practice (ABFP), the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM), the Association of Family Practice Residency Directors (AFPRD), and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG)."[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE,[4][5] PsycINFO,[6] Cinahl,[7] Science Citation Index Expanded,[8] and Current Contents/Clinical Medicine.[8]

See also

References
  1. "2014 Impact Factor". Annals of Family Medicine. 2015.
  2. Stange, Kurt C.; Phillips, William R.; Acheson, Louise S.; Crabtree, Benjamin F.; Zyzanski, Stephen J.; Miller, William L.; Gotler, Robin S. (1 May 2003). "Welcome to the Annals of Family Medicine". The Annals of Family Medicine. 1 (1): 2–4. doi:10.1370/afm.46.
  3. Frey, John J. (8 July 2019). "A Tribute to Kurt Stange and the First Seventeen Years". The Annals of Family Medicine. 17 (4): 290. doi:10.1370/afm.2434. PMC 6827648. PMID 31285203.
  4. "Annals of family medicine". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  5. Johns Hopkins Medicine. "MEDLINE Journals, Selected". All Journals. Unbound Medicine. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  6. "PsycInfo Journal Coverage List". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  7. "CINAHL Plus with Full Text Database Coverage List". EBSCO. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  8. "Journal Search". Thomson Reuters. 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2013.


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