American Family Physician

American Family Physician (AFP) is the editorially independent, peer-reviewed and evidence-based medical journal published by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Published continuously since 1950, each issue delivers concise, easy-to-read clinical review articles for physicians and other health care professionals.^[1]

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American Family Physician

Discipline	Family medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Sumi Makkar Sexton, MD, FAAFP
Publication details
History	1969–present
Publisher	American Academy of Family Physicians (United States)
Frequency	Biweekly
Open access	After 12 months
Impact factor	1.974 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Am. Fam. Physician
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	AFPYAE
ISSN	0002-838X (print) 1532-0650 (web)
LCCN	85650524
OCLC no.	01777828
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The journal is published monthly in print, online, and app formats. It is mailed to an audience of more than 180,000 family medicine and other primary care physicians and health care professionals and viewed online by more than 2.5 million unique visitors monthly.

The predecessor to American Family Physician was the journal GP, an acronym for "General Practitioner". GP was first published in 1950 by the American Academy of General Practice, which was the predecessor organization to the American Academy of Family Physicians.