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| Medical and Surgical Journal | |
|---|---|
| Title | Medical and Surgical Journal |
| Discipline | Medicine, Surgery |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviation | Med. Surg. J. |
| Publisher | Royal Society of Medicine Press |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| History | 1830–present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Issn | 0000-0000 |
Medical and Surgical Journal
The Medical and Surgical Journal is a long-standing periodical covering clinical practice, experimental research, and surgical technique, founded in the early nineteenth century and associated with major institutions such as the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians, and the British Medical Association. It has been read and cited by practitioners at the Guy's Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Massachusetts General Hospital, and its pages have influenced policymakers at the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the United States Congress, and the European Parliament. The Journal has published work by figures linked to the Royal Society, Wellcome Trust, National Institutes of Health, and the World Health Organization.
Established in 1830 amid contemporary periodicals like the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, the Journal emerged during debates at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and amidst reforms following the Medical Act 1858. Early editors were connected to the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, King's College London, and the University of Edinburgh Medical School; contributors included physicians associated with the Great Ormond Street Hospital and surgeons linked to the Royal Hospital Chelsea. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Journal documented surgical advances from the era of Joseph Lister and Florence Nightingale through developments concurrent with the First World War and the Second World War. In the postwar period it aligned with institutions such as the National Health Service and reported findings from research funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. Centuries of correspondence and editorial disputes connected the Journal to debates involving the Manchester Medical Society, the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
The Journal publishes original research, systematic reviews, case reports, surgical technique videos, and clinical guidelines relevant to specialties represented at the American College of Surgeons, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, European Society of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Topics span cardiothoracic surgery practiced at the Cleveland Clinic, neurosurgery associated with the Barrow Neurological Institute, vascular procedures discussed at the Society for Vascular Surgery, and oncologic surgery researched at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. It also includes anesthesiology pieces linked to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, infectious disease reports resonant with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and public health analyses cited by the World Bank and United Nations agencies.
The Journal’s governance comprises an Editor-in-Chief drawn historically from the Royal College of Physicians of London or the Royal College of Surgeons of England, deputy editors affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School, and an international editorial board including members of the European Respiratory Society, American Heart Association, and International Society of Surgery (ISS) Strasbourg. Manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review coordinated with reviewers from institutions such as the Karolinska Institutet, the Pasteur Institute, the Salk Institute, and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. Editorial policies reference standards promulgated by the Committee on Publication Ethics and reporting guidelines from the STROBE and CONSORT initiatives.
Printed and digital editions are produced monthly, distributed via partnerships with scholarly aggregators used by the British Library, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and university libraries at the University of Melbourne, University of Toronto, and Peking University. The Journal has participated in open access initiatives exemplified by collaborations with the Wellcome Trust and mandates similar to those of the European Research Council. It maintains indexing in databases managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, Scopus, and Web of Science, and it is cited in clinical resources produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the American Medical Association.
Historically notable publications include early descriptions of antisepsis influenced by Joseph Lister and accounts of battlefield surgery during the Crimean War and the Battle of the Somme. The Journal carried pioneering reports on procedures later codified at centers such as the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic, and disseminated randomized trial results later echoed in guidelines from the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization. It published influential case series that informed policy at the Department of Health and Social Care and methodological papers that have been cited in work originating from the Karolinska Institutet and the Imperial College London.
The Journal has been reviewed, critiqued, and praised in correspondence with editors at the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the British Medical Journal, and has influenced curricula at the University College London Medical School, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Yale School of Medicine. Citation analyses in databases overseen by the Institute for Scientific Information show sustained impact in surgical literature, and its editorials have been referenced in debates at the General Medical Council and meetings of the World Health Assembly. The Journal has received awards and recognitions from organizations such as the Royal Society and the British Medical Association.
Ethical oversight follows frameworks advanced by the Declaration of Helsinki and regulatory requirements from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. Legal disputes over authorship, conflicts disclosed under policies like those of the Committee on Publication Ethics, and malpractice-related case reports have intersected with courts including the High Court of Justice and the Supreme Court of the United States. The Journal enforces patient consent protocols aligned with guidance from the General Medical Council and institutional review boards at centers such as the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Category:Medical journals Category:Surgical journals