Mayo Clinic Proceedings

*Mayo Clinic Proceedings*
Publication details
January 2016 Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Former names	Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	Mayo Clin. Proc.
Discipline	Internal medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Lisa K. Muenkel
Publisher	Elsevier on behalf of the Mayo Clinic (United States)
Publication history	1926–present
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor (2014)	6.262
Indexing
ISSN	0025-6196 (print) 1942-5546 (web)
LCCN	sc78001722
CODEN	MACPAJ
OCLC no.	00822709
Links
Journal homepage Online acces Online archive

Mayo Clinic Proceedings is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier and sponsored by the Mayo Clinic. It covers the field of general internal medicine. The journal was established in 1926 as the Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic and obtained its current name in 1964. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 6.262, ranking it 11th out of 153 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".^[1] The journal started online publishing in 1999.^[2] Initially, its website consisted of simple lists of tables of content. In 2012, the current website was established. In addition to the journal content, it contains extra features such as Medical Images, Residents Clinics, Art at Mayo, and Stamp Vignettes on Medical Science, as well as author interviews and monthly issue summaries. Readers can also obtain CME credit.^[3]

Types of articles published

Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes the following types of articles:

Original Article
Review Article
Solicited Review
Concise Review for Clinicians (continuing medical education – CME – credit is offered with the Concise Review for Clinicians section)
My Treatment Approach
Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines
Special Article
Commentary
Brief Report
Editorial
Letter to the Editor
Medical Images
Stamp / Historical Vignettes
Art at Mayo
Meeting Reports
Symposium (continuing medical education – CME – credit is offered with the Symposium collections)
Case Report
Residents' Clinic
Path-to-Patient image quiz

Editors

The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:

E. D. Bayrd (1964–1970)
A. B. Hayles (1971–1976)
J. L. Juergens (1977–1981)
R. G. Siekert (1982–1986)
P. J. Palumbo (1987–1993)
Udaya B. S. Prakash (1994–1998)
William L. Lanier (1999–present)

References

↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Medicine, General & Internal". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
↑ Lanier, W.L. (1999). "Leading Mayo Clinic Proceedings Into the Future". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 74: 104. doi:10.1016/S0025-6196(11)64567-9.
↑ "Journal CME Instructions". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Elsevier. Retrieved 2013-03-12.

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