Journal Information

Read the latest research in medicine, health care, and nursing in Koomesh. Indexed in Scopus, EMBASE, and DOAJ. Published by Brieflands.

CiteScore 2025

0.5

First decision

41 days

Accept to publication

9 days

Acceptance rate

6%

The record

Full journal title
Koomesh
Abbreviation
koomesh
NLM title
koomesh
Publisher
Brieflands
Scientific collaborator
Semnan University of Medical Sciences
e-ISSN
2345-3699
p-ISSN
1608-7046
Language
English, Persian
Frequency
bi-monthly
Publishing model
Per-article continuous

Aim & scope

Koomesh Journal is a peer review, open access, and bimonthly journal. It is an official journal of Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. It was founded in 2000 and is published regularly. It is a journal with a multidisciplinary scope relevant to Medicine and allied sciences. Each issue carries useful articles, including peer-reviewed, reviewed, and original research articles and case reports that have direct clinical significance, and position papers on health care issues, medical education, and public policy. This Journal accepts Original Papers, Review Articles, Short Communications, and Letters to the Editor in the fields of medical sciences. This Journal is approved as an “Academic Research Journal” by the Journal Commission of the Ministry of Health And Medical Education.
Manuscripts are received with the understanding that they are submitted solely to the Koomesh Journal. Upon submission, they become the property of the Publisher, and that the data in the manuscript have been reviewed by all authors, who agree with the analysis of the data and the conclusions reached in the manuscript. Written approval by the local animal or human institutional review committee must be stated in the manuscript except for work that is noninvasive and minimally intrusive, or that is based upon routine clinical statistics already existing for the purposes of clinical care or follow-up and is part of the ordinary treatment of patients or human. Statements in articles are the responsibility of the authors.

Article types

Koomesh is a Bi-monthly academic Persian journal (with  English abstracts) supervised by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, and Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran. The journal is available in electronic version. Topics covered in this interdisciplinary journal include Medicine and allied sciences. Koomesh welcomes contributions in these fields in the form of original research articles, case reports, letters to the editor, review articles, brief reports, debate articles, and study protocols.

⚠️ This journal publishes Persian articles only after reviewing them, and articles in other languages ​​are rejected.

Peer review

Access & licensing

License policy

This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

Publication charges

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  • Publishing Open Access models: Full Gold Open Access
  • Access: Immediate permanent free to access after publication
  • Reader subscription fees: None
  • Article Processing Charge: Author pays APC
  • Embargo period: None
  • License for reuse: CC BY-NC 4.0
  • Publishing services: Full
  • Indexing: Full

Digital archiving

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Indexing & metrics

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CiteScore 20250.5
Time to first decision41 days
Accept to publication9 days
Acceptance rate6%
Open peer review1
Processing charges400

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