How Korean medical doctors try to increase the quality and format of their journals?

Sun Huh, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of Information Committee of

KAMJE

Difficult environment of the Korean Medical Journals 7,500 articles are published from

97 important medical journals every year

1. Korean language2. Not indexed in Web of Science or

PubMed3. Lack of comprehensive database4. Preferential treatment of SCI paper

Actions by Korean medical doctor to overcome that environment

KAMJE – evaluation of journal KoreaMed- database search KoMCI –impact factor calculation(-JCR) KoMCI Web- Korean Medical Citation

index database (-Web of Science) Training of journal editors and authors