Review of the Journal Acta Informatica Medica in 2013

First issue of Acta Informatica Medica journal was published during wartime in Bosnia and Herzegovina (in 1993). Until 2006 journal is published in Bosnian and English language 4 times per year, then only in English. From this year journal is printing bimonthly. In the year 2013 Acta Informatica Medica journal has published a total of 66 articles. Submission was carried out only electronically trough the Data Base Management System: www.scopemed.org. The journal has its own web site: www.avicenapublisher.org and it is possible to download full articles in PDF format. Most articles are from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but there is a signifi cant number published articles from other countries. A large number of articles was returned to authors due to linguistic and technical shortcomings, but also relatively poor scientifi c content. There is ongoing work on the promotion of peer reviewing process to prevent deceits, but also to improve journal scientometrics indicators (impact factor, citation of the article, journal citations, the number and order of authors in articles, etc.). Rejection rate was up to 46%. The structure of the articles published in the Acta Informatica Medica during 2013 was dominated by the original articles 51, followed by case reports 5, professional papers 4, reviews 4. Each issue of the journal as a rule contain contributions such as: news, book reviews, in memoriam etc. Last year is also published the Guidelines with professional and educational features (1, 2, 3). The authors of the article published in the Acta Informatica Medica in 2013 were from 16 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Iran, Turkey, USA, Egypt, Albania, Macedonia, India, Greece, Slovenia, France, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. The ratio of articles by authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad is 21:79. According to the medical fi elds of the published articles, the largest number was from clinical medicine 34, followed by articles from preclinical disciplines 18 and Public Health 14. The largest number of articles was from the fi eld of internal medicine 45,1%, then, surgery 16,1%, Pediatrics 16,1%, neuropsychiatry 3,2%, gynecology and obstetrics 3,2%, nuclear medicine 3,2%, etc. Most frequently published papers were from Medica Informatics fi eld 28,5%, then from Biochemistry 14,3%, etc. The time period from acceptance to publication of articles (received/accepted time): 50-59 days was presented in 16 cases, then, 60-69 days in 15 cases, 40 -49 days in 6 cases, 80-89 days in 6 cases, while the interval over 100 days was only in 3 cases. So, the largest number of papers was waiting for publication between 2 and 3 months. (fi gure 1, 2). The reviewers of the articles published in Acta Informatica Medica in 2013 were: • Damir Aganovic (BiH) • Omid Aghadavoudi (Iran) • Kenan Arnautovic (USA) • Mehmedali Azemi (Kosova) • Adem Balic (BiH) • Marion Ball (USA) • Rusmir Baljic (BiH) • Jacob Bergsland (Norway) • Alma Bravo (BiH) • Marko Buksa (BiH) • Genc Burazeri (Albania) • Vesna Cukic (BiH) • Vida Demarin (Croatia) • Doncho Donev (Macedonia) • Masoud Ferdosi (Iran) • Armen Yuri Gasparyan (UK) • Vjekoslav Gerc (BiH) • Zulfo Godinjak (BiH) • Mirko Grujic (BiH) doi: 10.5455/aim.2014.22.84-85 ACTA INFORM MED. 2014 APR 22(2): 84-85 Received: 11 January 2014 • Accepted: 22 February 2014 © AVICENA 2014 EDITORIAL