Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM) dates its origin back to 1863, when Prof. Axel Key, chairman of the Karolinska Institutet, founded the first Swedish medical journal Medicinskt Archiv, later renamed to Nordisk Medicinskt Archiv, and in 1919 to Acta Medica Scandinavica. Through the publisher Wiley/Blackwell the time to publication of accepted manuscripts has been substantially shortened, and several articles also have immediate free access. All issues since 1863 is now also available on line. JIM’s impact factor for 2011 is 5,483, and the Journal is now ranked No. 12 among the 152 journals grouped in the ISI list of journals of Medicine - General and Internal. JIM aims to serve clinical and pre-clinical researchers by providing a forum for publication of original articles concerning the whole panorama of diseases within internal medicine. This goal is achieved by promoting science within internal medicine as a concept of understanding diseases in their broad, interdisciplinary contexts, from genes and molecules to patients in their particular environment. JIM also publishes review articles by internationally leading scientists covering the forefront of medical science, and supports international symposia which fall within the scope of the journal. 
In 1989 the name was again changed, now to Journal of Internal Medicine, and publications in the journal were opened to international contributions, and now in 2013 it celebrates its 150 years anniversary!
Ulf de Faire
Editor-in-Chief Deputy Editor-in-Chief