The objective of this short communication was to reiterate the role of anesthesiology journals in informed decision making by summarizing studies on analyses of those journals found in PubMed database. There were five studies analyzing anesthesiology journals, three on authorship and two on randomized controlled trials. Whilst the two authorship studies reported increase in Chinese contribution, one authorship study reported decline in American contribution. The two studies on RCTs had emphasized improved quality of reporting which is needed in anesthesiology journals.

Keywords: Evidence analysis; Journal analysis; Evidence-based anesthesiology; Publication policies.