Hepatitis Monthly
Academic journal
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Hepatitis Monthly is a monthly peer-reviewed open access medical journal published by Brieflands Publishing, formerly known as Kowsar Publishing.[1] Kowsar was included on Beall's List prior to the list's shutdown in 2017.[2] The journal was established in 2002 by Seyed-Moayed Alavian, who is the journal's editor-in-chief.
| Discipline | Gastroenterology, hepatology |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Seyed-Moayed Alavian |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2002–present |
| Publisher | Brieflands Publishing (fka Kowsar Publishing) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Yes | |
| License | CC-BY-NC 4.0 |
| 1.578 (2018) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Hepat. Mon. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | HMEOBM |
| ISSN | 1735-143X (print) 1735-3408 (web) |
| OCLC no. | 1076732860 |
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Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in CAB Abstracts,[3] CINAHL,[4] EBSCO databases,[5] Embase,[6] Science Citation Index Expanded,[7] and Scopus.[8] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.578.[9]
In August 2017, the United States National Library of Medicine, which manages the PubMed Central database, determined that the journal did not satisfy their Scientific Quality Standard, and delisted the journal.[10]