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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

scientific journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4744267 ↗
Source-derived summary

The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is a monthly, peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Thoracic Society. It covers the pathophysiology and treatment of diseases that affect the respiratory system, as well as topics of fundamental importance to the practice of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. It was established in March 1917 as the American Review of Tuberculosis. Since then there have been several title changes. In 1953 a subtitle was added, "A Journal of Pulmonary Diseases." In 1955 the title became the American Review of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases, and in 1959 the American Review of Respiratory Diseases (the final "s" was dropped in 1966). The journal obtained its current title in 1994.

The journal was established by the National Tuberculosis Association, which became the American Lung Association, and which published the journal from 1917 until 1994 when its medical section, the American Thoracic Society, became the publisher.

Editors

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 19.4, ranking it 2nd out of 36 journals in the category "Critical Care Medicine" and 2nd out of 64 journals in the category "Respiratory System".

References

Further reading

Abraham, E (2005). "The AJRCCM in 2005".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine” is scientific journal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through American, Journal and Respiratory, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1953, 1955, 1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1917-01-01. For this dossier, American, Journal and Respiratory is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “scientific journal” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4744267. 7 of 7 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1917, 1953, 1955 and 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.