The_Western_Journal_of_Medicine

<i>Western Journal of Medicine</i>

Western Journal of Medicine

Academic journal

The Western Journal of Medicine was a peer-reviewed medical journal. It was established in 1856 as the Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California. It was renamed California State Journal of Medicine in 1902 and volume numbering was restarted at 1. In 1924 it was renamed California and Western Medicine and in 1946 California Medicine. In 1974, it obtained its final title, Western Journal of Medicine,[1] which was styled as wjm from 1999 on.[2] In 1985, the journal absorbed Arizona Medicine.[3] It ceased publication in 2002 because it was not financially viable any more.[4] The journal was lastly published by the BMJ Group with Michael Wilkes as its editor-in-chief.[2]

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal was abstracted and indexed by EBSCO databases, Gale databases, MEDLINE, ProQuest, PubMed, and Scopus.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Archive of "The Western Journal of Medicine"". PubMed Central. United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
  2. [2]
    "wjm". Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. ProQuest LLC. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  3. [3]
    "Arizona Medicine". NLM Catalog. United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
  4. [4]
    Wilkes, Michael (September 2002). "The future of wjm". Western Journal of Medicine. 176 (4): 221. PMC 1071731.
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