Anaesthesia (journal) LanguageEnglish Edited byProfessor A A Klein History1946–present Publisher Wiley-Blackwell FrequencyMonthly ISSN0003-2409 (print) Anaesthesia is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in anaesthesia, including intensive care, peri-operative medicine, critical care medicine and pain therapy. It is the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2018 impact factor is 5.879, ranking it fourth out of 31 journals in the category "Anesthesiology".[