The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is the world’s leading medical journal and website. Published continuously for over 200 years, NEJM delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, and the global medical community.
Our mission is to bring physicians the best research and information at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice and to present this information in understandable and clinically useful formats that inform health care delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Policies and practices to ensure that authors disclose all relevant financial associations and that such associations in no way influence the content NEJM publishes.
A truly global brand, NEJM keeps health care professionals at the leading edge of medical knowledge, helps them to gain broad understanding in their areas of interest, and provides valuable perspectives on the practice of medicine.
NEJM History
John Collins Warren, a Boston physician and scholar, collaborated in 1811 with colleague James Jackson to establish the first medical journal in New England, publishing the first quarterly edition of the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Medical Science (Boston) in January of 1812.
In 1921, the journal merged with the Boston Medical Intelligencer to become the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. It also began weekly publication that year and was purchased by the Massachusetts Medical Society for $1.
Renamed to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1928, NEJM is known for many firsts in medicine, including the first to publish a full description of spinal disk rupture (1934), the first to document success in treating early childhood leukemia (1948), and the first American medical journal to receive the Polk Award for journalistic excellence. For additional NEJM historical milestones, see Fact Sheet.
NEJM Today
Today, NEJM is the most widely read, cited, and influential general medical periodical in the world. More than 600,000 people from nearly every country read NEJM in print and online each week.
Each year, NEJM receives more than 16,000 research and other submissions for consideration for publication. Some 5% of original research submissions achieve publication by NEJM; more than half originate from outside the U.S.
NEJM is cited more often in scientific literature than any other medical journal, and has the highest Journal Impact Factor (72.46) of all general medical journals (2016 Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics, 2017).
NEJM also offers unrestricted, free online access to its content in more than 90 low-income countries. All users obtain free access to NEJM research articles six months after they are published.
