Act A InformA t IcA med IcA Is Indexed I n Pubmed
Twenty years ago, at the height of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), I and Zoran Ridjanovic decided to launch the first journal of medical in-formatics in Southeast Europe (1, 2, 3). The difficult decision gave birth to a me-dium of science communication, which turned out to be a ‘wonder of Sarajevo’. The city was then under siege, which put people in coma for 1479 days. There were no electricity, safe drinking water, food, firewood, and logistics for printing. A package of blank papers for reproduction of 500 sheets costed nearly 30 Euros. This was considered as a scientific curiosity at European and global conferences on medical informatics (2).The circulation of Acta Informatica Medica during the war was roughly 50 copies, printed on a primitive copy-ma-chine and compiled on the hybrid PC XT