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Saudi Medical Journal

Discipline	Medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Mov
Publication details
History	1979-present
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	1.484 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Saudi Med. J.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0379-5284 (print) 1658-3175 (web)
OCLC no.	5237763
Links
Journal homepage Past Issues

The Saudi Medical Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal. It is an open access journal, with content released under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license.

The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, Systematic Reviews, Case Reports, Brief Communication, Brief Report, Clinical Note, Clinical Image, Editorials, Book Reviews, Correspondence, and Student Corner.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2014 impact factor of 0.588.^[1] The journal has been in the Thomson-Reuters database since 1992.^[2] The journal is indexed in the following bibliographic databases:

• Saudi Medical Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• MEDLINE/Index Medicus (National Library of Medicine) available through PubMed
• PubMed Central
• Europe PMC
• EMR Index Medicus
• Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE)
• BIOBASE

• Founding Editor: Abd El-Hameed El-Faraidi (1979-1999)
• Previous Editors-In-Chief:
  • John Muir (1980-1984)
  • Rasheed Al-Kuhaymi (1984-1991)
  • David A. Price Evans (1983-1993)
  • Basim A. Yaqub (1995-2004)
  • Saleh M. Al-Deeb (1994-2009)
  • Saud Al-Omani (2009-2012)
  • Ali AlBarrak (2012-2015)

The journal was established in 1979. In 1985 publishing was transferred from London to Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• Official Website