Saudi Medical Journal - A college by itself!

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became monthly with a steady growth in manuscripts submitted and number of pages published.In the last 5 years, we have doubled in number of articles and pages published.In addition we achieved growth not only in quantity but also in quality.We have published many supplements and special issues in Arabic and English.In the year 2000, the journal was indexed by the National Library of Medicine in Medline and Pubmed.We also have established a website (www.smj.org.sa) with an average of 1000 hits daily.We recollected all the published data from all journals published in Saudi Arabia from 1979 until the end of 1999, in a special CD, MedBase.Annual Report.This year we received 587 manuscripts with an increase of 42% from last year and overall increase of 124% in the last 5 years from 1998.The rejection rate for this year was 56% compared to 38% last year, and 30% in 1998 (Figure 1).We published 1572 pages with a 36% increase from last year and a 91% increase from 1998 (Figure 2).The turnover time from submission to acceptance for this year was 3.3 months, the same as last year, but lower by 35% than it was in 1998 at 5.1 months.Each yearly volume will be split into 2 sub-volumes with 2 binders for each annual volume.With each bound issue we will also include a CD containing all literature published for that period.The original articles still constitute the main subject of each issue (Figure 3).Our articles are still mainly from the Kingdom, but we are receiving more articles from the Arab world and other regional countries, such as, Turkey, Iran, India and Pakistan (Figure 4).Despite the increase in the number of publications we will still run monthly this year, however, in the future we may increase publication to twice monthly.We also started to include related abstracts for some articles, from the Saudi MedBase (Figure 5), this will continue over the coming years.

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