The American Journal of Surgery

The American Journal of Surgery is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of 6 major surgical societies:

• The Southwestern Surgical Congress
• The North Pacific Surgical Association
• The Association for Surgical Education
• Association of Women Surgeons
• Midwest Surgical Association
• The Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS)^[1]

The American Journal of Surgery

Discipline	Surgery
Language	English
Publication details
History	1926-present
Publisher	Elsevier (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	2.403 (2015)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Am. J. Surg.
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ISSN	0002-9610 (print) 1879-1883 (web)
OCLC no.	01480194
Links
Journal homepage

Elsevier's former sister company Cahners Publishing acquired The American Journal of Surgery's publisher Technical Publishing in 1986.^[2]

The journal publishes articles describing original research on abdominal, cancer, vascular, head and neck, breast, and colorectal surgeries.

According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 2.403. The journal's editor in chief is Kirby I. Bland of the University of Alabama.^[3]

In public media

This journal is in Robin Cook's Coma (1978) book.