Kosin Medical Journal

Aims & Scope

TheKosin Medical Journal(Kosin Med J, KMJ, pISSN 2005-9531, eISSN 2586-7024,https://www.kosinmedj.org), the official publication of Kosin University College of Medicine, is a peer-reviewed and open access journal of research in all medical fields, including medicine, medical science, medical ethics, medical policy, and medical education. Its regional focus is Korea, but it welcomes submissions from researchers all over the world. The KMJ aims to communicate new medical information to medical personnel, and to facilitate the development of medicine, medical science, medical ethics, medical policy, and medical education, as well as the propagation of medical knowledge by publishing high-quality, evidence-based articles. The KMJ publishes editorials, review articles, original articles, and case reports. All manuscripts should be creative, informative, and helpful for the diagnosis and treatment of medical diseases and the communication of valuable information about all fields of medicine, medical science, medical ethics, medical policy, and medical education. The first volume was published in Korean in February 1985. The KMJ has been published in English since 2016. A total of 1,165 papers were published by 2021. Since 2022, the KMJ has been published four times a year, on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31. KMJ is indexed, tracked, and covered by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), KoreaMed, KoreaMed Synapse, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus International, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Korean Medical Citation Index, and DOI/Crossref.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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