The New England Journal of Medicine

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.

To these ends, the NEJM editorial team employs rigorous:

• Editorial, peer, and statistical review processes to evaluate manuscripts for scientific accuracy, novelty, and importance.
• 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.

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. About 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 (70.670) of all general medical journals (2018 Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science Group, 2019).

NEJM is a Public Access Journal. All original research content is freely available on NEJM.org six months after the date of publication. In addition, qualifying low-income countries are granted free access to all articles on NEJM.org dating back to 1990.

The editors may also make certain materials including articles on global health and of public health importance free to all readers immediately upon publication on NEJM.org

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