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The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is one of the world’s leading medical journals and websites delivering high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, researchers, and the global medical community. The NEJM publishes weekly, with more than a million people from across nearly every country worldwide reading the NEJM in print and online each week. It is also cited more often in scientific literature than any other medical journal.
The NEJM was first published in 1812. Today, the NEJM has offices in Boston and Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a publication of the NEJM Group, which is a division of the Massachusetts Medical Society. The Massachusetts Medical Society is the oldest continuously operating state medical society in the United States and was incorporated on November 1, 1781. It purchased the NEJM publication in 1921.
The NEJM's stated mission is "to publish the best research and information at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice and to present this information in understandable, clinically useful formats that inform health care practice and improve patient outcomes."
The NEJM has high standards for editorial, peer, and statistical review processes to evaluate manuscripts for scientific accuracy, novelty, and importance. And standards for policies and practices to ensure that authors disclose all relevant financial associations and that such associations in no way influence the content the NEJM publishes. Each year, the NEJM receives more than 16,000 research and other submissions for consideration for publication. About 5 percent of original research submissions achieve publication by the NEJM, with more than half originating from outside the U.S.
The NEJM offers paid subscriptions and is also a public access journal. All original research content is freely available on NEJM.org six months after the date of publication. In addition, readers in qualifying low-income countries are granted free access to all articles on NEJM.org dating back to 1990. The editors also make articles that meet the criteria for global and public health importance free to all readers immediately upon publication on NEJM.org.
With the creation of a free NEJM.org account, readers have additional options for free access to published content, including the choice of any two subscriber-only articles (from 1990 to present) each calendar month, articles coordinated with medical meetings during the meeting, unlimited views of Images in Clinical Medicine and Quick Take videos, and more.