British Journal of Anaesthesia


The British Journal of Anaesthesia is a monthly peer-reviewed international medical journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Royal College of Anaesthetists ; the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland; and the , for all of which it serves as their official journal. The journal covers all aspects of anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, intensive care medicine and pain management. The current editor-in-chief is Hugh C. Hemmings.
The BJA was founded in 1923, one year after the first anaesthetic journal was published by the International Anaesthesia Research Society. The first Editor-in-Chief of the journal was H. M. Cohen. He was based in Manchester, UK, but born in New York City, and he edited the journal from 1923 to 1928. Recent Editors-in-Chief include Ravi Mahajan, Charles Reilly and Jennifer Hunter.
Editor-in-Chiefs: British Journal of Anaesthesia
H M Cohen: 1923-8
J Blomfield 1929-48
W Faulkner Hill and TC Gray: 1948-61
JE Riding 1961-73
AA Spence 1973-83
W Fitch 1983-88
G Smith 1988-97
J M Hunter 1997-2005
CS Reilly 2005-2013
R Mahajan 2013-17
HC Hemmings Jr 2017-

''BJA Education''

The BJA has a sister journal entitled BJA Education which was first established in 2001 as BJA CEPD Reviews; it was later renamed to Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain in 2004 and latterly to BJA Education in 2015. This publication is a commission-only reviews journal that is published monthly. BJA Education aims to strengthen the educational platform provided by the flagship journal, BJA. The mission statement of BJA Education is "Improving patient care by supporting continuing professional development in anaesthesia, critical care, pain and perioperative medicine." The current Editor-in-Chief is Jonathan P. Thompson. The most recent Editor-in-Chief prior to this was Jeremy Langton.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 Impact Factor of 6.499, ranking it second out of 31 journals in the Anesthesiology category.

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