The Annals of Saudi Medicine is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal

Medical journal

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 published bimonthly by Medknow Publications

Medknow Publications

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 on behalf of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital

King Faisal Specialist Hospital

The King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center is a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which operates 850 beds with approximately 8,500 employees. In all there are 63 different nationalities making up the staff. The hospital is the national referral center for oncology, organ...

 and Research Centre (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). The journal publishes original articles, brief reports, case reports and letters. Other sections are editorials, special communications, perspectives, images, and "what’s your diagnosis".

History

The Annals of Saudi Medicine was established in 1981 as the King Faisal Specialist Hospital Medical Journal. It obtained its current title in 1985. The Annals went from a quarterly to a bimonthly publication in 1988.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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