The ''Canadian Journal of Surgery'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering surgery. It was established in 1957 and is published by the Canadian Medical Association. The current

editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

are Edward J. Harvey and Chad Ball. The journal is sponsored by the

Canadian Association of General Surgeons The Canadian Association of General Surgeons is a professional association for general surgeons in Canada. It was founded in 1977. History The Canadian Association of General Surgeons held its inaugural meeting on 11 May 1977 at the Royal Y ...

, Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery, Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons, and Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology.

History

The journal was established as a result of a collaboration between Canadian departments of surgery, the

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (french: Collège royal des médecins et chirurgiens du Canada) is a regulatory college which acts as a national, Non-profit organization, nonprofit organization established in 1929 by a speci ...

, and the Canadian Medical Association. In 1957, leading surgical groups asked the Canadian Medical Association to undertake the publishing of the journal. The founding

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consisted of the chairs of surgery at the 12 medical schools in Canada at the time. The president of the

chaired the board. The first issue was published on 1 October 1957. The

subsidized the journal until 1991 when it withdrew in favor of its own journal, Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Jean Couture then arranged for the

to become the major sponsor of the journal. Currently the Canadian Journal of Surgery, at 60 years of continuous publication, is the longest surviving journal of record of surgery in 300 years of organised surgery in

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

Citation record

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shows that as of the end of 2016, the ''Canadian Journal of Surgery'' had published 5917 citable articles. The average citation per article was 6.9 so that its

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increased yearly from 0.5 in 2006 to 2.544 in 2017. The journal's

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is 55 with a normalized

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score of 0.42.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal: * Robert M. Janes, 1957–1964 * Frederick G. Kergin, 1964–1972 * Lloyd D. MacLean, 1972–1992 * C. Barber Mueller, 1972–1992 * Roger G. Keith, 1992–1998 * Jonathan Larmonth Meakins, 1992–2003 * James P. Waddell, 1998–2011 * Garth L. Warnock, 2003–2013 * Edward Harvey, 2011–present * Vivian C McAlister, 2013–2019 *Chad Ball, 2019–present

References

External links

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