Published since 1883, JAMA offers unparalleled reach and an author-friendly approach from manuscript submission through publication. JAMA offers you:

Prompt Decisions, Rapid Publication Timelines

• 69 days (median time) from submission to acceptance (including review and revision) for all manuscripts
• 37 days (median time) from acceptance to publication
• 7 days (median time) from submission to rejection
• 36% of all manuscripts sent for external peer review
• Highly selective, 8% acceptance rate of nearly 6000 annual submissions
• JAMA-EXPRESS: Opportunity for peer review, revision, and online publication in 4 weeks and print publication in 6 weeks or less for select major randomized controlled trials or reports with urgent public health importance

Impact and Reach

• Impact factor: 25.5, one of the highest in medicine and science
• Largest print circulation of any general medical journal: more than 360,000 readers in 148 countries
• More than 1 million page views weekly
• 11 international editions in 11 different languages
• Weekly JAMA Podcast, E-mail Alerts, RSS Feeds, and Topic Collections highlight your article
• News releases of major articles distributed each week to more than 4500 journalists worldwide
• Weekly video news release of major articles seen by at least 12 million viewers
• Weekly radio news release broadcast widely

Author Focus

• Prompt, expert review and consideration from JAMA's team of editors, who strive to give authors fair decisions and advice
• Ability to track your submitted manuscript’s progress at http://manuscripts.JAMA.com
• The highest standards followed to improve your accepted manuscript’s accuracy, reliability, and readability for both print and online publication by JAMA's editors, manuscript editors, graphics experts, and publishing staff
• No page or color charges
• Ability to track your published article's Web traffic and citations on your own Author's Article Resource Center
• Alerts whenever your article is cited by a journal hosted by HighWire Press, Web host of more than 1000 journals
• 25 free e-prints of your article to the corresponding author
• Download your figures and tables to use as PowerPoint slides
• JAMA/Archives Journals Editorial Consortium: Authors of papers that are not accepted by JAMA may have the option to have their papers and peer reviewers' comments referred to 1 of the 9 Archives specialty Journals for further consideration for publication

For more information, see JAMA's Instructions for Authors at http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/ifora.dtl. Submit your manuscript at http://manuscripts.jama.com.

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