The Annual Review of Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal that publishes review articles about all aspects of medicine. It was established in 1950. Its longest-serving editors have been William P. Creger (1974–1993) and C. Thomas Caskey (2001–2019). The current editor is Mary E. Klotman. As of 2023, Annual Review of Medicine is being published as open access, under the Subscribe to Open model. As of 2024, Journal Citation Reports gives the journal a 2023 impact factor of 15.1, ranking it third of 189 titles in the category "Medicine, Research & Experimental".

History

The first volume of the journal was published in 1950 by the nonprofit publishing company Annual Reviews. It noted that the more "active" areas of medicine would be covered in each volume, while other subdisciplines would be covered every two or three years. Its first editor was Windsor C. Cutting. In 1996, it was one of the first Annual Reviews journals to be published electronically.

Editors of volumes

Dates indicate publication years in which someone was credited as a lead editor or co-editor of a journal volume. The planning process for a volume begins well before the volume appears, so appointment to the position of lead editor generally occurred prior to the first year shown here. An editor who has retired or died may be credited as a lead editor of a volume that they helped to plan, even if it is published after their retirement or death.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • BIOSIS Previews • CAB Abstracts • Chemical Abstracts Service • EBSCO databases • Embase • Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed • ProQuest databases • Science Citation Index Expanded • Scopus