The Journal of Urology is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering urology published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Urological Association. It was established in 1917. A special centenary issue was released in 2017 to celebrate 100 years of the publication of the journal. Over the years, it absorbed the Transactions of the American Urological Association (1907–1920), as well as Investigative Urology (1963–1981) and Urological Survey (1951–1981). Urological Survey was known as Quarterly Review of Urology from 1946 to 1950.

Editors

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: • Hugh H. Young (1917–1945) • J. A. Campbell Colston (1946–1965) • Hugh J. Jewett (1966–1977) • William W. Scott (1977–1983) • Herbert Brendler (1983–1985) • John T. Grayhack (1985–1994) • Jay Y. Gillenwater (1994–2004) • William D. Steers (2007–2015) • Joseph A. Smith, Jr. (2015-present)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, PASCAL, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Gender Studies Database, and Veterinary Science Database.