Aim & Scope
KSU Medical Journal is the scientific official journal of the Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University Faculty of Medicine. KSU Medical Journal is an international, double-blind, bias-free, peer-reviewed online publishing journal. The journal aims to reach all national and international medical institutions and researchers.
KSU Medical Journal have the highest ethical and scientific standards and no commercial concerns in the articles. The Editorial Board Works within the framework of the International Medical Journal Editors Council (ICMJE) and Editorial Ethical Principles Commission (COPE) principles. In order to be published, the articles must not have been submitted for publication and not previously published elsewhere. Types of articles accepted for publication in the journal are original research articles, case reports, and reviews. No article processing charge or publication fee is requested from the owners of scientific works published in the KSU Medical Journal. The evaluation process of the manuscript is completed within 8 weeks at the latest. All responsibility for the opinions and results of the articles published in the KSU Medical Journal belongs to the authors. Journal editors and editorial board do not accept any responsibility for the reliability and results of the research data. KSU Medical Journal is published every 4 months (March, July, and November), 3 issues per year. The language of the journal is both in Turkish and English. Plagiarism rules are followed by the journal. The journal recommends that all of our authors obtain their own ORCID identifier which will be included in their article.
Open access policy: The journal publishes fully open access issues, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users as soon as they are published. Based on the principle of making research available to the public free of charge, this journal provides immediate open access to its content that supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. By “open access” to this [research] literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain is be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.