New names for 9 JAMA journals

CHICAGO – Effective Jan 1, 2013, the nine specialty Archives Journals in the JAMA Network will change their names. The change was done to more closely interconnect the scientific journals published by the American Medical Association, a statement from JAMA said.

The journals will be renamed JAMA Dermatology, JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Neurology, JAMA Ophthalmology, JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, JAMA Pediatrics, JAMA Psychiatry and JAMA Surgery.

Two of the journals will have shortened new names: the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine will be known as JAMA Pediatrics and the Archives of General Psychiatry will become JAMA Psychiatry.

“While we all realize that changes in the names of our journals, which have been revered for decades, may raise some concerns among our loyal readers and authors, we believe that standardization of format and integration into The JAMA Network will justify these changes in the long run,” according to an editorial written by JAMA editor in chief Howard Bauchner M.D. and the nine specialty journal editors, formally announcing the name changes.

The covers of the renamed journals will continue to reference their former Archives titles for several months following the January change.