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Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

peer-reviewed scientific journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ6295914 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering orthopedic surgery related to the shoulder, elbow, and upper extremities. It is the official journal of multiple shoulder and elbow societies, including the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, the European Society for Surgery of Shoulder and Elbow, the Japan Shoulder Society, the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia, the South American Shoulder and Elbow Society, the South African Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, the Asian Shoulder Association, the Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society, the International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, and the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists.

History

The journal was established in January 1991, with Mosby, now an imprint of Elsevier, as the publisher. The founding editor-in-chief was Robert Cofield (Mayo Clinic). In 1997, Robert Neviaser (George Washington University Medical Center) took over as editor-in-chief. In 2008, Bill Mallon (Triangle Orthopaedic Associates, Durham, North Carolina) was named as the third editor-in-chief. John E (Jed) Kuhn was named as the fourth editor-in-chief in 2025. Originally the journal was published bimonthly. In 2010, it began publishing 8 issues per year, increased in 2012 to monthly.

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Scopus.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery” as peer-reviewed scientific journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1997, 2008, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Journal, Shoulder and Elbow can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as peer-reviewed scientific journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6295914. 7 of 7 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1997, 2008 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery” 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.