The Irish Journal of Medical Science is a peer-reviewed

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 medical journal that was established in 1832 by Robert Kane

Robert Kane (chemist)

Sir Robert John Kane was an Irish chemist.-Youth:His father, John Kean, was involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and fled for a time to France where he studied chemistry...

 as the Dublin Journal of Medical & Chemical Science. Besides Kane, it had distinguished editors like Robert James Graves

Robert James Graves

Robert James Graves, M.D., F.R.C.S. was an eminent Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science...

 and William Wilde

William Wilde

Sir William Robert Wills Wilde MD, FRCSI, was an Irish eye and ear surgeon, as well as an author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland...

. It is the official organ of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and published by Springer Science+Business Media

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History

The journal was established in 1832 as the Dublin Journal of Medical & Chemical Science. It was then sequentially titled:

• Dublin Journal of Medical Science (until 1845)
• Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science (from 1846 to 1871)
• Dublin Journal of Medical Science (until 1925)

In 1925 it obtained its current title and volume numbering was re-started at 1.

William Wilde became editor in 1845. Contributors included Dublin physicians Abraham Colles

Abraham Colles

Abraham Colles was professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Descended from a Worcestershire family, some of whom had sat in Parliament, he was born to William Colles and Mary Anne Bates of Woodbroak, Co. Wexford...

 (1773–1840), William Stokes (1763–1845), Sir Philip Crampton

Sir Philip Crampton

Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet, FRS was an eminent Irish surgeon and anatomist.-Life:Crampton was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a dentist. He was a childhood friend of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the United Irishman, and a cousin, on his mother's side, of Thomas Verner, Grand Master of the Orange...

 (1777–1858), Thomas Ledwich

Thomas Hawkesworth Ledwich

Thomas Hawkesworth Ledwich was an eminent Irish anatomist and surgeon.-Life:He was born in Waterford, where his father practiced law, son of Edward Ledwich and Catherine Hawkesworth, both of Queen's County...

 (1823–1858), Arthur Jacob

Arthur Jacob

-Biography:Jacob, second son of John Jacob, M.D. , surgeon to the Queen's County infirmary, Maryborough , Ireland, by his wife Grace , only child of Jerome Alley of Donoughmore, was born at Knockfin, Maryborough, on 13 or 30 June 1790. He studied medicine with his father and at Steevens's...

 (1790–1874), Robert Adams

Robert Adams (physician)

-Life:He was born in Ireland, studied at Trinity College, Dublin between 1810 and 1814 and received his B.A. in 1814. He began his medical training under William Hartigan and George Stewart, leading Dublin surgeons...

 (1791–1875), Stephen Myles MacSwiney (died 1890), Sir Charles Cameron (1830–1921) and Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave

Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave

Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave was an eminent Irish physician, antiquary and writer.-Life:He was born in County Longford, Ireland, son of William Alexander Cosgrave and Maria, daughter of Dr. Ephraim MacDowel....

 (1847–1925).

James Little

James Little (physician)

Dr. James Little was an eminent Irish medical practitioner. After spending an early part of his career as a ship's surgeon, surviving a shipwreck, he became chief physician at the Adelaide Hospital in Dublin and Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Dublin.-Early life:Little was born in...

 (1837–1916) was editor from 1869 to 1875; during his tenure, the journal changed from a quarterly to a monthly publication.

Abstracting and indexing

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, Current Contents

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/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE

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, PubMed

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/MEDLINE

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, Science Citation Index Expanded

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, Scopus

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, and Summon by Serial Solutions

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 0.696.

External links

• Index of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science 1832–1950