The JCI was founded in 1924 and is published by the ASCI, a nonprofit honor organization of physician-scientists incorporated in 1908. See the JCI's Wikipedia entry for detailed information.
/// Impact Factor: 13.25 (2017). The JCI is one of the top journals in the “Medicine, Research & Experimental” category.
/// Broad readership and scope. The JCI reaches readers across a wide range of medical disciplines and sectors. The journal publishes basic and phase I/II clinical research submissions in all biomedical specialties, including Autoimmunity, Gastroenterology, Immunology, Metabolism, Nephrology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Pulmonology, Vascular Biology, and many others.
/// Open access. All research is available to the public for free. The JCI deposits published research articles in PubMed Central, which satisfies the NIH Public Access Policy and other similar funding agency requirements