80th Anniversary of the Establishment of the "Medical Archives" Journal (1947-2026)

This year the journal “Medical Archives” celebrates 80th anniversary of the establishiment (1947-2026). With the name “Medicinski Arhiv” this journal was founded in the year 1947 as official journal of the Society of physicians of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The first Editorial board was consisted of professors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University in Sarajevo opened in November 16th 1947: Vladimir Čavka, Blagoje Kovačević, Bogdan Zimonjić and Ibro Brkić. “Medical Archives” journal was a key milestone that helped in education of all academic and professional staff that became the foundation of Bosnian and Herzegovinian medicine, as a science and health care as a profession. The oldest medical journal in BiH was “Jahrbuch des Bosnisch-Herzegowinischen Landesspitales in Sarajevo” (“Annual of the National Hospital in Sarajevo”) which was established in 1897 and printed in German language in the period from 1897 until 1900. From the year 1950 “Medicinski Arhiv” was included in the most influential and important index database MEDLINE, as one of oldest medical journals in Souut-Eastern Europe. The first aim of journal was to give a opportunity to young researchers from BiH to present their scientific and research work to wider community. The tradition of publishing of “Medical Archives” as the most recognizable journal in BiH, was kept by Editor of Professor Izet Masic in 1993 who in extraordinary and difficult occasions (during wartime in BiH from 1992 until 1995) re-established journal and continued printing of the war issues. Hopefully the MEDLINE did not stop to continue receiving “Medicinski arhiv” journal and did not stop accept of published articles of “Medicinski Arhiv” in Medline/PubMed, SCOPUS, EMBASE, HINARI, EBSCO, and a lot of other indexed databases. From the year 2013 articles published in “Medical Archives” was included in PubMed Central with full papers (in extenso). Today “Medical Archives” belong to the most cited journals in former Yugoslavia countries with h-Index 38 in SCImago rank, it means 38 published papers in “Medical Archives” were cited 38 times in other indexed scientific journals worldwide, with SJR 0.33 and Q3 in the year 2024.