Anesthesia & Analgesia
journal
Anesthesia & Analgesia is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering anesthesia, pain management, and perioperative medicine that was established in 1922.
It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the International Anesthesia Research Society. Its editor-in-chief is Jaideep Pandit (St John's College, Oxford).
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 5.9, ranking it sixth out of 35 journals in the category "Anesthesiology".
A companion journal, A&A Practice is also published.
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