New England Journal of Medicine
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The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most respected medical journals in the world;

It was founded by Dr. John Collins Warren in 1812 as a quarterly called The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery. In 1828, it became a weekly, and was renamed The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; one hundred years later, it took on its present name.

It publishes editorials, papers on original research, widely-cited review articles, correspondences, case reports, and has a special section called "Images in Clinical Medicine".

Authors have included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Hans Zinsser, and Lewis Thomas. One of its early editors, Jerome V. C. Smith, resigned in 1857 to assume his duties as mayor of the City of Boston.

The journal (abbreviated usually as N Engl J Med for referencing purposes) usually has the highest impact factor of the journals of clinical medicine (including the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet). NEJM is to internal medicine what Nature and Science are to general science.