Journal History
Songklanagarind Medical Journal was first established by Prof. Vicharn Panich in 1983, and has reached its 36th year with the last issue of January-March 2018. During these 36 years, Songklanagarind Medical Journal has been through many developments and improvements. There have been altogether 9 editors-in-chief since the beginning:
Vicharn Panich | Vol. 1 No. 1 (1983) - Vol. 3 No. 4 (1985) |
Saranatra Waikakul | Vol. 4 No. 1 (1986) - Vol. 6 No. 1 (1988) |
Winyou Mitarnun | Vol. 6 No. 2 (1988) - Vol. 9 No. 4 (1991) |
Arnuparp Lekhakula | Vol. 10 No. 1 (1992) - Vol. 14 No. 4 (1996) |
Nakornchai Phuenpathom | Vol. 15 No. 1 (1997) - Vol. 18 No. 1 (2000) |
| Vol. 28 No. 3 (2010) - Vol. 30 No. 2 (2012) |
| Vol. 31 No. 4 (2013) - Vol. 33 No. 2 (2015) |
| Vol. 33 No. 3 (2015) - Vol. 34 No. 3 (2016) |
Vicha Charoonratana | Vol. 18 No. 2 (2000) - Vol. 26 No. 2 (2008) |
Prayong Vachvanichsanong | Vol. 26 No. 3 (2008) - Vol. 28 No. 2 (2010) |
Verapol Chandeying | Vol. 30 No. 3 (2012) - Vol. 31 No. 3 (2013) |
Jitti Hanprasertpong | Vol. 34 No. 4 (2016) - Vol. 40 No. 3 (2022) |
Surasak Sangkhathat | Vol. 40 No. 4 (2022) - Vol. 42 No. 5 (2024) |
In addition, the covers of Songklanagarind Medical Journal have changed during these times as follows
One of the missions of the Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University (one of Thailand’s National Research Universities) is to foster high-quality research. Accordingly, Songklanagarind Medical Journal is an important tool to drive the mission to achieve this target.
Songklanagarind Medical Journal is an academic health science journal of Prince of Songkla University which has the goal to publicize and open opportunities for the submission of research or other academic topics, patient reports, interesting new scientific articles, suggestions, and new concepts which will be beneficial to medical professionals, public health workers, and any other readers interested in this field.
Songklanagarind Medical Journal is indexed in the journal database of the Thai-Journal Citation Index Centre (TCI) and was given a Thai-journal Impact Factor for the first time in 2002. Songklanagarind Medical Journal was certified as an academic journal (Tier 1) according to the journal quality assessment result announcement round 1, 1st time Year 2011. In 2015, Songklanagarind Medical Journal is certified as an academic journal (Tier 1) according to the journal quality assessment results announcement round 3, Years 2015-2019. Also, Songklanagarind Medical Journal is indexed in the ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) in the 1st time assessment Year 2014 for 41 journals.
Since Vol.36, No2 (2018), the name of Songklanagarind Medical Journal was changed to Journal of Health Science and Medical Research, as well as aims to significantly move forward to be indexed in the international bibliometric databases, Scopus at last.
Source: Hanprasertpong J. (2018). Editorial Statement. Sonklanagarind Medical Journal, 36(1), 1-2. Retrieved from https://www.jhsmr.org/index.php/jhsmr/article/view/80/113