The Journal of Korean Medical Science is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal of medicine published in English. The journal's publisher is the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.
The Journal aims at publishing evidence-based, scientifically written articles from different disciplines of medical sciences. The Journal welcomes articles of general interest to audiences of medical researchers especially when they contain new information. Articles of clinical evaluation of drugs and other therapies, epidemiologic studies in general population, studies on pathogenic organisms and toxic materials, toxicities and adverse effects of therapeutics are welcome.
When written in language other than English and has not been propagated in any international information services (abstract journals), secondary publication of the article is negotiable.
The Journal of Korean Medical Science (JKMS) is indexed/tracked/covered by MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, Science Citation Index, KoreaMed, Synapse, KoMCI, BIOSIS Previews, SCOPUS, Embase, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and Google Scholar.