علل تاخير در نشر نشريات دوره اي پزشکي کشور Dr. S. Zahedi, PhD, Professor of Endocrine Physiology, Editor-in-Chief, Iranian Journal of Endocrinology & Metabolism International Journal of Endocrinology & Metabolism Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran-IR-Iran Iranian Medical Editors Association (IMEA) Meeting, 12 th Nov Tehran

Importance of professional science journalism Within the areas of science, and medicine, the final products of most research activity are: A report, A monograph A patent, And more importantly an article in a peer reviewed journal.

Records In Iran: Commision for Medical Periodical publications (MOHME) Number= are indexed in well known sites ( ISI, Pubmed) 45% behind the schadual Mostly one issue behind

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Prestigeous Journals Well trained personal (Sufficient manpower) Technical helps Well established supporting firms Well trained editors Well trained copy editors Well trained technical editors Efficient editorial board Efficient reviewers

Editorial Office Editor - in - Chief Administration & Correspondence Elaboration & correction of proofs Electronic Edition Promotion & Marketing Produccion & quality control Survey Copy Editing Layout Photomechanics Correction of proofs HTML, PDF, XML DOI, PubMed, CrossRef Congresses Design of advertisements e-Marketing Printing Binding Warehouse Distribution Billing Market studies Technological vigilance Authors Referees Suscribers Editorial board Clients DVDBlogs, comments Importance of professional human capital

What are the problems Delay in the publication Scientific errors Introduction Methods – Statistics Appearance End users

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Story of me becoming Editor-in-Chief

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Authors Young authors have problem of writing: – Volume of the manuscripts – Standards of tables and figures – Text – References – COPE standards – Statistics

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Reviewers Not very keen ( No gain or small gain) Skill – Seniors Skilled Lack of time Not interested Problem with on line reviewing – Juniors New for the job Not very interested

JOURNALS 1.Iranian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism (Farsi) Peer reviewed issues at first 6 issues now All issues are accessible freely through the website(

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How well established journals are financed? o Subscriptions o Open Access fees o Edition charges o Sale of individual articles via Internet. o Purchase of reprints o Copyright o Advertisements o Academic society membership fees o Donations

How one small office based journals are financed? Universities Scientific societies Advertisements (little) Donations (even smaller)

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Suggestions Capacity building More workshops in different levels for Editors Reviewers Authors Authorities !!!! Technical assistance: Close collaboration between the journals Financial tackles: No defined financial arrangements at the moment

Massage to take home We can improve further the quality of our journals by thinking about profesional publicación and introducing appropriate measures We should ACT