Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), abbreviation name: J Health Sci Med Res; formally known as: Songklanagarind Medical Journal. The academic health science journal of Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, goal is to provide open opportunities for publication of the highest quality manuscripts. The journal is dedicated to: research or other academic topics, patient reports, interesting new scientific articles, suggestions, and new concepts that will be beneficial to medical professionals, public health workers and any other readers interested in this field. All articles are double-blindly peer-reviewed by experts in the corresponding field. Our frequency times of publication are: 6 issues per year (Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Jul-Aug, Sep-Oct, and Nov-Dec).

 Aims and scope

JHSMR offers an interdisciplinary forum for basic or applied medical and health sciences research, evidence-based and scientifically written articles. Our content focuses on, but is not limited to, these areas of medicine and health science;

  - Clinical medicine 
  - Biomedical science and biomedical engineering
  - Public health research
  - Data science in medicine and health care

Publication type

Since 2018, JHSMR has published 4 types of paper; including original articles (including systematic reviews), review articles, case reports and selected editorials.

Frequency: 6 issues per year 

• January – February
• March – April
• May – June
• July – August
• September – October
• November – December

Language: English

Free Access: online and print

ISSN: 2586-9981 (Print)
ISSN: 2630-0559 (Online)
*ISSN (Print and Online) start date Vol.36 No.2 Apr-Jun 2018

Journal History

Songklanagarind Medical Journal was first established by Prof. Vicharn Panich in 1983, and has reached its 36^th 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:

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, 1^st 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 1^st 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