JAMA Ophthalmology


JAMA Ophthalmology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of ophthalmology. The editor-in-chief is Neil M. Bressler. It is published by the American Medical Association, with which it has been affiliated since 1929.

History

The journal was established in New York in 1869 as the Archives of Ophthalmology and Otology, with a simultaneous German language version published in Karlsruhe, Germany, as Archiv für Augen- und Ohrenheilkunde; sometimes articles would be slightly different. The editors were Hermann Knapp, who practiced both ophthalmology and otology, with greater emphasis on the eye, and the otologist Salomon Moos. The journal obtained its current name in 2013.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 6.198, ranking it 4th out of 60 titles in the category "Ophthalmology".