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The term "physical medicine" represented a change of emphasis from the purely clinical to the scientific and diagnostic basis of the medical use of physical agents. It also served to clarify the distinction between physicians and technicians of physical therapy, a stance the American Medical Association had recently adopted.
It has a current ranking of Orthopedics 16/82, Sport Sciences 16/85 and Physiology 22/81 with an Impact Factor of 3.165. [1] These rankings generally place the journal in the top quartile of the fields related to sports medicine. [2]
The impact factor relates to a specific time period; it is possible to calculate it for any desired period. For example, the JCR also includes a five-year impact factor, which is calculated by dividing the number of citations to the journal in a given year by the number of articles published in that journal in the previous five years. [14] [15]
The British Journal of Sports Medicine is a twice-monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering sports science and sports medicine including sport physiotherapy. It is published by the BMJ Group. It was established in 1964 and the editor-in-chief from 2008 to 2020 was Karim M. Khan (University of British Columbia).
The journal has long criticized the misuse of impact factors to award grants and in the recruitment of researchers by academic institutions. [ 23 ] The five journals that cited The BMJ most often in 2008 were (in order of descending citation frequency) The BMJ , the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews , The Lancet , BMC Public Health , and ...
The American Journal of Sports Medicine is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2014 impact factor is 4.362, ranking it 1 out of 72 journals in the category 'Orthopedics'. [2] and 6 out of 81 journals in the category 'Sport Sciences'. [3]
Then called the American Society of Physical Therapy Physicians, AAPM&R was founded in 1938 in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Congress of Physical Medicine. Walter Zeiter, MD, was elected executive director (a position he held for 22 years) and John S. Coulter, MD, was elected as the first president.
Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine is a quarterly scientific journal published by Begell House covering the field of physical medicine and ...