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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 ''). The website for the George Polk Awards noted that its 1977 award to the ''New England Journal of Medicine'' "provided the first significant mainstream visibility for a publication that would achieve enormous attention and prestige in the ensuing decades" {Link without Title} . OPEN ACCESS POLICY ''NEJM'' provides Free Online Access To Its Research Articles (it does so six months after publication, and maintains that access dating back to 1993). This delay does not apply to readers from the Least Developed Countries , for whom the content is available at no charge for personal use. ''NEJM'' also has two Podcast features, one with interviews of doctors and researchers that are publishing in the journal, and another summarizing the content of each issue. EDITORS
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