Review of the Journal Medical Archives in 2013.

In the year 2013 Medical Archives journal has published a total of 125 articles (it was until now most extensive volume of the journal). Submission was carried out only electronically trough the Data Base Management System: www.scopemed.org. The journal has its own web site: www.avicenapublisher.org and it is possible to download full articles in PDF format. Most reviewers are from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but there is a significant number published articles from other countries. A large number of articles was returned to authors due to linguistic and technical shortcomings, but also relatively poor scientific content. There is ongoing work on the promotion of peer reviewing process to prevent deceits, but also to improve journal scientometrics indicators (impact factor, citation of the article, journal citations, the number and order of authors in articles, etc.). Rejection rate was up to 60%.

The structure of the articles published in the Medical Archives during 2013 was dominated by the original articles - 102, followed by case reports - 11, reviews - 2 and research papers - 3. Each issue of the journal as a rule contain contributions such as: news, book reviews, in memoriam etc. Last year is also published the Guidelines with professional and educational features (1,2,3).

The authors of the article published in the Medical Archives in 2013 were from 24 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Iran, Qatar, Turkey, USA, Egypt, Albania, Austria, Macedonia, Malaysia, Sudan, Iraq, China, India, Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Morocco, Sweden, Canada, United Kingdom, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. The largest number of authors was from Bosnia and Herzegovina - 72, then from Iran - 11; Kosovo - 12; Albania - 8, Turkey - 3, etc. The ratio of articles by authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad is 59 : 66. According to the medical fields of the published articles, the largest number was from clinical medicine - 111, followed by articles from preclinical disciplines - 8 and Public Health - 6.

The largest number of articles was from the field of internal medicine - 38.7%, then, surgery - 20.7%, neuropsychiatry - 8.1%, gynecology and obstetrics - 8.1%, ophthalmology - 6.3%, oncology - 5.3%, etc. From the area of preclinical disciplines dominated articles on pharmacology and microbiology. The time period from acceptance to publication of articles (received/accepted time): 60-69 days was presented in 29 cases, then, 50-59 days in 24 cases, 40 -49 days in 20 cases, 70-79 days in 18 cases, while the interval - over 100 days was only in four cases. So, the largest number of papers was waiting for publication between 2 and 3 months.

The reviewers of the articles published in Medical Archives in 2013 were:

Damir Aganovic (BiH)

Omid Aghadavoudi (Iran)

John Alfred (Ethiopia)

Kenan Arnautovic (USA)

Mehmedali Azemi (Kosova)

Adem Balic (BiH)

Marion Ball (USA)

Rusmir Baljic (BiH)

Jacob Bergsland (Norwey)

Alma Bravo (BiH)

Marko Buksa (BiH)

Genc Burazeri (Albania)

Vesna Cukic (BiH)

Vida Demarin (Croatia)

Marianna Diomidous (Greece)

Doncho Donev (Macedonia)

Masoud Ferdosi (Iran)

Armen Yuri Gasparyan (UK)

Vjekoslav Gerc (BiH)

Zulfo Godinjak (BiH)

Mirko Grujic (BiH)

Safet Guska (BiH)

Izet Hozo (Croatia)

Jacob Hofdijk (The Netherlands)

Zlatko Hrgovic (Germany)

Mohammad Adnan Hourani (Lebanon)

Hilmi Islami (Kosova)

Sebija Izetbegovic (BiH)

Mahira Jahic (BiH)

Naim Jerliu (Kosova)

Ahmet Karabulut (Turkey)

Jasenko Karamehic (BiH)

Roya Kelishadi (Iran)

Drilona Kishta (Kosova)

Selim Kolgechi (Kosova)

Mehmed Kulic (BiH)

Asim Kurjak (Croatia)

Elvedin Landzo (BiH)

John Mantas (Greece)

Sladjana Martinovic-Mitrovic (Croatia)

Izet Masic (BiH)

Tarik Masic (BiH)

Azra Metovic (BiH)

George Mihalas (Romania)

Snjezana Milicevic (BiH)

Dragica Milinkich (Australia)

Moytaba Mojtahedzadeh (Iran)

Emir Mujanovic (BiH)

Miralem Music (BiH)

Rasool Nouri (Iran)

Murat Ozdemir (Turkey)

Haris Pandza (BiH)

Azis Pollozhani (Macedonia)

Alden Prcic (BiH)

Biljana Radovanovic (Serbia)

Naser Ramadani (Kosova)

Kheirabadi Gholam Reza (Iran)

Halima Resic (BiH)

Enver Roshi (Albania)

Ali Mohammad Sabzghabaee (Iran)

Mustafa Sefic (BiH)

Osman Sinanovic (BiH)

Suad Sivic (BiH)

Sekib Sokolovic (BiH)

Emir Solakovic (BiH)

Genc Sulcebe (Albania)

Enra Suljic (BiH)

Jusuf Sabanovic (BiH)

Zekerijah Sabanovic (BiH)

Salih Tandir (BiH)

Nahid Tavakoli (Iran)

Aygen Turkmen (Turkey)

Muharem Zildzic (BiH)

Lejla Zunic (BiH)

Josip Vincelj (Croatia)

Zora Vukobrat (BiH)

Jack Wellt (Ethiopia)

Peter Wolf (Austria)

Medical Archives articles listed on PubMed

Article review history on Medical Archives online review system

To all of reviewers Editorial Board of Medical Archives cordially thank for their participation and contribution in improving of its contents. From Table 1. it is clear that the h-index of the oldest biomedical journal Medical Archives is significantly higher with h-index of 10, which means that the scientist who in this journal published 10 papers have at least 10 citations for each work in other journals. Medical Archives is now abstracted and indexed in 24 on-line databases. Last year we updated Instruction for authors and Guidelines for preparation of manuscripts for submitting articles electronically via www.avicenapublisher.org web site

Table 1

Presentation of biomedical journals in B&H ordered by the h-index values (2012) (4)