Table 1.
The history of the Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science development
| Date | Key milestones |
|---|---|
| Dec 1984 | The inaugural issue was published in Korean with 15 articles, and its name was Yŏngnam Ŭidae haksulji in Korean |
| Jul 1994 | International standard serial number was assigned (pISSN 1225-7737) |
| Jun 1996 | The journal joined as a member of the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE) |
| Dec 2004 | The journal was indexed in KoreaMed |
| Mar 2012 | The journal was indexed in KoreaScience |
| Jun 2012 | The journal’s English name was added as Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine (pISSN 1225-7737, eISSN 2234-8042) |
| Feb 2013 | The journal was indexed in KoreaMed Synapse |
| Jan 2014 | The journal became a member of the Korean Council of Science Editors (KCSE) |
| Jun 2015 | The journal began publishing articles online only |
| The journal name remained the same (Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine) and a new ISSN was issued (eISSN 2384-0293) | |
| Dec 2016 | The journal was indexed as a candidate journal in Korea Citation Index (KCI) |
| Jun 2018 | The journal adopted an English-only policy and online submission and review systems were introduced |
| Oct 2018 | The journal was indexed as an accredited journal in KCI |
| Jun 2019 | The journal was indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) |
| Oct 2019 | The journal was indexed in PubMed Central (PMC) and became searchable through PubMed |
| Jan 2020 | International-level manuscript editing was implemented through professional manuscript editing by InfoLumi (Seoul, Korea) |
| Oct 2020 | The journal was indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) |
| Jan 2022 | The journal’s name was changed to Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science (eISSN 2799-8010) |
| The journal expanded the types of articles published: imagery, image vignette, and resident fellow section were launched | |
| Dec 2022 | The journal was indexed in ScienceCentral |
| Mar 2023 | The journal was accepted to Scopusa) |
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The reviewer’s comment was as follows: “This institutional English language journal from South Korea is publishing 20–30 items per annum from all health disciplines, with a substantial increase in citation activity (>600) since last reviewed. The editors have responded constructively to the previous Scopus evaluation in 2019, and on balance, there are no obvious contraindications to accession to Scopus at this point.”