ISSN : 2146-3123
E-ISSN : 2146-3131

Impact Factor
Balkan Scopus
Slider 1
Slider 3
Slider 4
Slider 5
Slider 6

News See All

A Digital Opportunity for Patients to Manage Their Health: Turkey National Personal Health Record System (The e-Nabız) Şuayıp Birinci.  
The 2022 announcement of the Journal Citation Report (JCR) heralded a dream come true in the 44-year history of the Balkan Medical Journal by becoming a Q2 journal. We are pleased to announce that with the official results of 2024, we have maintained our place in the Q2 quartile for 3 years.  
We are pleased to report that our journal has achieved an Impact Factor of 1.9 for the year 2023.  
We are proud to share Balkan Medical Journal's CiteScore. According to Scopus data for 2023, Balkan Medical Journal's Citescore value has been determined as 4.1.  
The former editor-in-chief of our journal, Cem Uzun, has been elected president of EASE (The European Association of Science Editors).
Balkan Medical Journal adopts the WAME recommendations on ChatGPT and Chatbots related to scientific publications http://www.balkanmedicaljournal.org/static.php?id=10  

Articles See All

Betül Gemici Karaaslan, Jérémie Rosain, Jacinta Bustamante, et al.
In this invited review, authors summarized a key cytokine of the cellular immune response, interferon‐gamma (IFN-γ), which is linked to Mendelian susceptibility to Mycobacterial disease, and its potential as a therapeutic option for IFN-γ deficiency.
Katarina Živančević, Başak Aru, Abdullah Demir, et al.
In this study, authors aim to investigate whether IgG treatment can alleviate oxidative stress caused by Zn0 on microglia in vitro.
Aycan Yüksel, Dilek Karadoğan, Nur Hürsoy, et al.
In this study, authors aim to determine the characteristics, risk factors and clinical significance of post-COVID interstitial lung disease
Başak Işıldar, Serbay Özkan, Meral Koyutürk
With this study, authors assess the effectiveness of valproic acid in enhancing and modulating the therapeutic potential of cells and to examine its impact on the secretome profiles and ultrastructural morphologies of mesenchymal stem cells.
Zeynep Hızlı Demirkale, Mehmet Fatih Alpkıray, Ayşe Engin, et al.
With this study, authors investigated effect of the duration of house dust mite subcutaneous immunotherapy on the expression of major immune checkpoint molecules on the surface of CD4+ T helper and regulatory T cells

Image Corner

FIG. 2. (a) Pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) performed before antibiotic treatment.

News from Balkan Medical Journal See All

The publisher of our journal has been changed. As of January 2022, Balkan Medical Journal started working with GALENOS. We will continue to use the same online manuscript tracking system (Manuscript Manager). However, there have been some changes to our website. We wanted to inform all our authors, readers, and reviewers.
The effort to maintain the editorial freedom has posed distinct challenges arising from regional dynamics in the Balkan region, as in any part of the world. For a journal to be successful in the international arena, reasonably organized managerial processes are required. Clear definitions of work packages, workflows, duties and responsibilities, and assignment and dismissal criteria are essential for the transparency of managerial processes. The journal’s owner, editor-in-chief, editorial board, publisher, and authors effectively communicating with each other within the framework of rules will prevent chaotic and destructive conflicts that may harm the reputation and its mission. The attempt to establish a legal regulation, an agreement between the owner and the editor, and an ombudsman began approximately five years ago for Balkan Medical Journal. Throughout this process, the journal’s management has endeavored to consult the opinions of the journal’s owner and the university legal regulation committee to establish a legal regulation for the journal that is ethical, practical, sustainable, and conforms to the national laws and international scientific values. We believe the journal legal regulation, finalized in January 2019 and presented below, serves as a role model for all scientific circles and the Balkans and will contribute to the advancement of institutional scientific publications of medicine in the region. The journal’s editorial board extends its gratitude to all current and past employees, the Dean’s of the Faculty of Medicine of Trakya University, and to the current rectorate of Trakya University for their valuable contributions and encouragement to building the development of the journal legal regulation to protect editorial freedom and provide successful journal management of all Trakya University scientific journals.