QScience.com has announced that Qatar Medical Journal (QMJ) is now indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), the world's largest and most-used biomedical literature database. PubMed Central is a freely-available database of full-text articles on life sciences and biomedical topics. Citations and abstracts of all QMJ articles will additionally be retrievable in PubMed through keyword and author searches.
Journals accepted to PMC undergo a rigorous review process by the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, which is a National Institute of Health chartered committee. The primary consideration in selecting journals for indexing is scientific merit, which includes such factors as validity, importance, originality and contribution to the field. Journals must also demonstrate a high level of quality, credibility, and objectivity related to their peer review process and ethical guidelines.
Launched in December 2010, QScience.com is a peer-reviewed online publishing platform from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals that offers a unique and collaborative research environment for scientists in Qatar and the rest of the world.
The Global Cardiology Science and Practice journal was the first of QScience.com's journal to be indexed by PMC earlier this year.
