Saudi Medical Journal

*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	Saudi Med. J.
Indexing;
ISSN	0379-5284 (print); 1658-3175 (web);
OCLC no.	5237763
Links
	Journal homepage ; Past Issues ;

Last updated December 22, 2025

Indexing and abstracting

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

Editors

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)

History

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

References

↑ "Plant Disease". 2014 Journal Citation Reports . Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
↑ "Saudi Medical Journal" . Retrieved 14 February 2016.

External links

Official Website Archived 2022-02-24 at the Wayback Machine

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[WoS-1] "Plant Disease". 2014 Journal Citation Reports . Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.

[2] "Saudi Medical Journal" . Retrieved 14 February 2016.

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