Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine(YUJM)
Fifth registration among the nation's 41 medical schools
Recognized for excellence as general medicine journal, founded in 1983, issued twice a year
[August 10, 2016]
'Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine (YUJM)', an academic journal published by the YU College of Medicine was selected as a candidate for registration in the National Research Foundation's 2016 academic journal evaluations.
YUJM was recorded as the fifth academic journal registered with the National Research Foundation following Yonsei University, Chonnam National University, Hanyang University, and Kosin University among the 41 medical schools in Korea.
With this selection, YUJM will be recognized as a candidate journal for registration starting with the 2016 Volume 33-1 (June 30) issue. The National Research Foundation's registration candidate journals are given recognition and status equivalent to registered academic journals, and this selection officially recognized the YUJM as an excellent academic journal having both system and composition as a general medicine journal.
YUJM was first founded in 1984 and has been carrying reviews articles, original articles and case reports in basic and clinical medicine fields. It is issued twice a year (June 30, December 31), and articles are received all year round.
After being registered in 'KoreaMed', the nation's largest medical thesis database in 2004, YUJM was registered in 'KoreaMed Syapse' in 2013, and is now offering full-texts of academic journals that meet international standards. In addition, it can be searched in domestic databases as well such as KISS and the Korean Medical Database (KMbase). Plans are being made to register in prominent domestic and foreign citation databases such as the National Research Foundation registered journals, PubMed, EMBASE, SCOPUS and SCI(E).
