About CMAJ

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CMAJ showcases innovative research and ideas aimed at improving health for people in Canada and globally. It publishes original clinical research, analyses and reviews, news, practice updates and thought-provoking editorials. CMAJ.ca, a full-text website, allows people to use the latest health information. CMAJ has an impact factor of 7.5 and its website receives over 25 million requests a year.

CMAJ Benefits

• Team of international, medically qualified editors
• High-quality, timely peer review (initial decision to review within 2 weeks)
• Profile – regular news coverage of CMAJ articles in Canadian and international media ensures knowledge transfer and profile for authors.
• Cmaj.ca contains the complete editorial contents of the print issue of CMAJ, supplemented with additional online content
• Impact factor of 7.5 in 2008 (Thompson ISI)
• The Journal is part of the PubMed Central collection of journals www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov at the National Library of Medicine. This affiliation guarantees permanent archiving and open access.

Long History

• Published continuously since 1911, new content is uploaded on cmaj.ca every Monday at noon EST/EDT and publishes biweekly print issues. Issues from 1911 to the present are available on PubMed Central.

Profile

CMAJ research papers and editorials attract attention. For example,

• a study on the overdiagnosis of asthma in adults received more than 230 mentions in major international media from Time Magazine and U.S. News & World Report to Agence France-Presse
• A paper by Australian researchers on the HPV vaccine attracted attention from international media, government and policy-makers, generating more than 120 media mentions
• Papers on the pneumoccocal vaccine and prevention of heart attacks and on proton pump inhibitors and bone loss each received 140 news items in media in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and other countries.

Content

• The Journal receives more than two thousand of manuscripts a year, including letters to the editor and news articles, from around the world. CMAJ's acceptance rate for unsolicited research and review articles is about 10%.

To submit an article, visit http://www.cmaj.ca/authors/.

CMAJ's Impact Factor

Survey Results

Physician Resource Questionnaire

2007 cmaj.ca User Survey

2005 cmaj.ca User Survey

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Disclaimer

Governance Review Panel Final Report

Staff List (including Competing Interests)