Dear friends!
It is with great pleasure that I extend a warm welcome to you on the webpages of the esteemed peer-reviewed medical scientific and practical journal "Science and Healthcare".
I trust you are one of those authors who have already had the experience of publishing in our journal, or perhaps you are about to go through all the stages of this challenging, responsible, and very interesting process. Upholding the principle of academic integrity, we guarantee equal attention to manuscripts from both world-renowned scholars and authors taking their first steps in science. All articles undergo mandatory double-blind peer review by specialists in the relevant field and are only recommended for publication afterward. One of the key aspects of working with authors is establishing a trusting and responsible relationship built on mutual respect, accountability in disseminating scientific and medical information, and the actual implementation of evidence-based medicine achievements in healthcare practice.
The journal continues to show good performance, and we have much to be proud of!
The journal is included in the List of Scientific Publications (List 2) recommended by the Committee for Quality Assurance in the Field of Science and Higher Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the publication of key research findings (Order No. 603 dated July 12, 2024).
The impact factor of the journal "Science and Healthcare" according to the Kazakhstan citation database is 0.168.
According to the reporting data from the Russian Index of Scientific Citation as of June 05, 2025, among 60 Kazakhstani medical journals included in this database, our journal "Science and Healthcare" continues to hold a leading position—ranked 1st, with an Impact Factor of 0.171. Out of 1482 publications from our journal available in e-Library, we have been cited 2378 times. In the overall Science Index ranking of RSCI in the "Medicine and Healthcare" category, the journal's score has increased from 0.545 to 3.670, placing it in the 47st percentile of the Science Index ranking. The Herfindal Index for citing journals has decreased to 389. The ten-year Hirsch Index has risen from 15 to 18. You can find an analysis of the journal's publication activity at the following link: https://elibrary.ru/title_profile.asp?id=38451.
The Committee for Quality Assurance in the Field of Science and Higher Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan has conducted a selection and included our journal in the project "Promotion and Development of 25 Kazakhstani Journals in International Citation Databases". Within this framework, the journal is systematically working according to the developed Roadmap.
Additionally, as part of the project "Promotion of the Journal into Ranking World Cited Databases" the journal has been invited to undergo an evaluation by EBSCO for inclusion in its research database. We also plan to undergo evaluation for inclusion in the PubMed database.
The journal continues to be indexed in 15 scientometric and specialized databases, such as: Ulrich Periodicals Directory, CAB Abstracts, Global Health, Info Base Index, Directory of Research Journals Indexing, Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), E-library.ru, Cyberleninka.ru, Index Copernicus (ICI World of Journals), NSD (Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals), All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VINITI) (Electronic Catalog of Scientific and Technical Literature), CONEM Association, Russian Agency for Digital Standardization (RACSD), Data Base Indexing, Kazakhstani Citation Database of the National Center for State Scientific and Technical Expertise (KazBC), the Republican Interuniversity Electronic Library, and is also under consideration by several other international databases.
We continue to work to ensure its visibility and accessibility on the journal’s website http://newjournal.ssmu.kz, where you can get all the necessary information about the author(s), read the summary and full text of the article in .pdf format and download the necessary information, as well as send a request and article in electronic form. Currently, work is underway to fill the archive.
The composition of the editorial board is represented by native and foreign scientists, whose names are well known both in our country and far beyond its borders, with merits in the field of medicine, biology, ecology, medical biophysics and biostatistics. We hope to continue productive joint work to improve the quality of articles in promoting the journal into scientometric rating databases, since their recognition and evaluation will strengthen our performance in the global space, which will contribute to the further openness of the journal and the growth of scientific value.
The geography of authors and co-authors includes countries such as Japan, Turkey, Germany, France, the USA, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine, Israel, Norway, Finland, Spain, Italy, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, the UK, Lithuania, Latvia, Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and others.
An increase in the number of articles in English will undoubtedly make the journal open to the world community, and serious research conducted by colleagues will not go unnoticed in the scientific world.
However, we do not intend to rest on our achievements. We urge you, our authors and readers, to take a more active role by describing and submitting articles to the editorial office that include the results of original research, literature reviews, and clinical case reports on rare diseases and unique clinical manifestations, as well as brief communications and conference reports on a wide range of topics related to medical education, clinical medicine, public health, radiation safety, radiation medicine, and the consequences of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. With your contributions, we will continue to maintain the high scientific standards of the journal.
The Editorial Board of the journal is always open to comments and suggestions. Critical comments and friendly advice will be taken into account in the preparation of future issues, because work to improve the quality of publications is impossible without an active dialogue with authors and readers.
We sincerely express our gratitude and appreciation for your collaboration!
