The Archives of Internal Medicine, with a print circulation of over 100 000 physicians in 75 countries, began publication in 1908. It is an international peer-reviewed journal published 22 times per year and reaches the majority of office- and hospital-based general internists and significant numbers of internal medicine subspecialists in the United States. The online version is published on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, except August and December, when it is published on the second Monday only. The Archives of Internal Medicine's recent acceptance rate is about 10%. The average time from receipt to first decision is 12 days; from receipt to final decision, 14 days; from submission to publication, 152 days. The impact factor of the Archives of Internal Medicine is 7.9, ranking near the top among over 100 general and internal medicine titles. (The impact factor is a measure of citation rate per article, and is calculated by dividing 1 year's worth of citations to a journal's articles published in the previous 2 years by the number of major articles [eg, research papers, reviews] published by that journal in those 2 years.) The Editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine is Philip Greenland, MD, Executive Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill (see Archives Editorial Board).

Mission Statement: To promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of human health by publishing manuscripts of interest and relevance to internists practicing as generalists or as medical subspecialists.

Access for Developing Countries: The online version of Archives of Internal Medicine is made freely available or nearly so to institutions in countries with a per person GDP of $3000 or less, through the World Health Organization’s HINARI program (see list of countries).