The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 covering research in the field of medical informatics

Health informatics

.Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care...

 published by the American Medical Informatics Association

American Medical Informatics Association

AMIA, formerly known as the American Medical Informatics Association, is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of biomedical and health informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.- History :AMIA is the...

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According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 3.078, ranking second out of 22 journals in the category "Medical Informatics" (behind the Journal of Medical Internet Research

Journal of Medical Internet Research

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal established in 1999 covering eHealth and "healthcare in the Internet age". It is edited and published by Gunther Eysenbach. The journal is widely regarded as one of the pioneers in open access publishing...

), 8th out of 97 in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications", and 6th out of 126 in the category "Computer Science, Information Systems".