Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is the official journal of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). The journal is published monthly by Elsevier, and is the most highly cited journal in the Rehabilitation category of the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports. The 2013 Impact Factor is 2.441.

The journal is edited by Leighton Chan and Allen W. Heinemann.

Award

The Licht Award

Sidney Licht, MD, was a longtime member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and was its president in 1967-68. He was the editor of the Physical Medicine Library, which was published by his wife, Elizabeth. The Licht award originated in March 1979 with its first award presented to Carl Granger, Gary Albrecht, and Byron Hamilton for their article "Outcomes of Comprehensive Medical Rehabilitation: Measurement by PULSES Profile and the Barthel Index".[1] The award is given every year for the best scientific article published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation during the previous year.

History

Content for this timeline was obtained from historical records, conference proceedings, and other documents of the ACRM. It is a summary of those events and markers that reflect the evolution of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and therefore is not a comprehensive history.

Abstracting and Indexing

The contents of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation are indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE, Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Science Citation Index, Citation alert, BIOSIS Previews, and CINAHL.

See also

References

  1. Granger, CV; Albrecht, GL; Hamilton, BB (1979). "Outcome of comprehensive medical rehabilitation: measurement by PULSES profile and the Barthel Index". Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 60 (4): 145–54.

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