The evolution of the British Journal of Anaesthesia: the first 100 years

William Fitch; Graham Smith; Jennifer M Hunter; Charles S Reilly; Ravi P Mahajan; Hugh C Hemmings Jr

doi:10.1016/j.bja.2022.10.013

The evolution of the British Journal of Anaesthesia: the first 100 years

Br J Anaesth. 2023 Jan;130(1):3-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2022.10.013. Epub 2022 Nov 12.

Authors

William Fitch¹, Graham Smith², Jennifer M Hunter³, Charles S Reilly⁴, Ravi P Mahajan⁵, Hugh C Hemmings Jr⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
² Department of Anaesthesia, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
³ Department of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Electronic address: bja@liverpool.ac.uk.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesia, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesia, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.

PMID: 36376100
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2022.10.013

Abstract

At this centenary of the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) in 2023, six of its 12 editors/editors-in-chief detail developments over the decades that have led to the BJA becoming a high-impact international scientific journal. As a charity, the BJA supports academic research and training in anaesthesia, critical care, and pain medicine including funding of research grants and postgraduate education. Building on this foundation, the BJA continues to innovate as it aims to become fully electronic, expand into open access publishing, and increase the diversity of its editorial board.

Keywords: electronic publishing; general anaesthesia; history of medicine; peer review; publication metrics.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Anesthesia*
Anesthesiology*
Critical Care
Humans