The Journal of Pediatric Surgery: Its First 50 Years.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-2018

Identifier

PMID: 29241959 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2017.11.007

Abstract

This article is based on the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Lecture at the 2017 meeting of the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons. This lecture was renamed The Jay L. Grosfeld /Journal of Pediatric Surgery Lecture in honor of Dr. Jay L. Grosfeld who was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery (JPS) from 1994 until his passing in 2016. The first part of this paper recounts the first 50years of JPS starting with the efforts of Drs. Koop and Gans to start a Journal devoted to Pediatric Surgery. The second part of the paper reviews the top ten citations in the first 50years of JPS. Finally, the last part of the article discusses what the future may hold for JPS.

Journal Title

Journal of pediatric surgery

Volume

53

Issue

2

First Page

212

Last Page

216

MeSH Keywords

Periodicals as Topic; Specialties, Surgical; Pediatrics

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