JAMA Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association. It covers all aspects of pediatrics. The journal was established in 1911 as the American Journal of Diseases of Children and renamed in 1994 to Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, before obtaining its current title in 2013.
The journal's founding editor-in-chief in 1911 was Abraham Jacobi. The articles in that first volume of the journal were mostly observational studies focused on the major causes of illness and death in children at the start of the 20th century.
The current editor-in-chief is Dimitri A. Christakis (University of Washington). According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2023 impact factor is 24.7, ranking it 1st in the category "Pediatrics".
Naming history + JAMA Pediatrics – historical name changes Title Year ISSN JAMA Pediatrics 2013– 2168-6211 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 1994–2012 1072-4710 American Journal of Diseases of Children (1960) 1960–1993 0002-922X A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children 1956–1960 0096-6916 A.M.A. American Journal of Diseases of Children 1950–1955 0096-8994 American Journal of Diseases of Children (1911) 1911–1950 0096-8994
Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.
See also List of American Medical Association journals
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