The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, a publication of Kaohsiung Medical University, has recently been accepted for indexing and abstracting in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), an international, multidisciplinary index of journal literature in the sciences.
Yu Hsin-su (余幸司), president of the university, said he was pleased to see the journal, established in 1985, being covered in SCIE, along with a few other Taiwanese professional journals and about 7,000 others worldwide.
The medical journal is aimed at promoting clinical and scientific research in the medical sciences in Taiwan and disseminating this research to the international community of medical and healthcare professionals, Yu said.
It is published monthly by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte and solicits research papers in medicine from around the globe. It has published papers submitted by Indian, Japanese, Iranian and Iraqi academics.
Its subscriptions have reached some 1,000, while an additional 400 copies are usually sent out in journal exchanges with universities in the US, Japan, China and Hong Kong, Yu said.
The magazine serves as the main source of medical information in southern Taiwan and its reports have often been cited by domestic media outlets. It continues to retain Chinese extracts, although the journal was revised in 1997 and has been published in English since then.
The academic periodical offers prizes in two categories for excellent papers to encourage medical researchers to contribute reports on their findings, Yue said.
The journal has won two awards from the Ministry of Education for teaching excellence and outstanding research achievements, Yu said.
The journal plans to seek sustainability by creating a platform for medical experts in Asia and medically emerging countries to present their research results in the areas of acute and chronic diseases, he said, expressing the hope that the periodical would be upgraded and promoted overseas and would be able to employ academics from abroad to work as editors.
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