Editorial: An analysis of the articles published in the twelfth edition of the Journal of Management Medicine

Journal of Police Medicine is the only scientific journal of the Directorate of Health, rescue, and Treatment of Iran police headquarters, which generally publishes articles related to the physical and mental health of police forces, rescue, treatment, and rehabilitation of police forces and police missions too. This journal started its twelfth volume as a bilingual journal and published the full text of ۲۸ articles out of ۸۵ received in both English and Persian languages from the beginning of ۲۰۲۳. Since ۲۰۲۲, to increase the international audience, this journal has published the main content of articles in English under the title of an extended abstract, and in ۲۰۲۳, it completed this action by publishing the full text of all articles in English. The acceptance rate of articles in this period was ۳۲.۹۴% and the rejection rate was ۶۹.۴۱%, of which ۶۳.۴% quickly and ۲۱.۶% after the refereeing process were rejected. In this journal, with the frequency of continuous publication, compared to the articles published in the previous volume, an ۱۱.۴۶% decrease in the acceptance rate and a ۱۳.۸۱% increase in the rejection rate were observed. Finally, the number of articles published in this issue decreased by ۳۰% compared to last year. It seems that one of the most important reasons for the increase in rejection and decrease in the publication of articles in this volume and issue was a rejection of articles without an ethics code, which caused a large drop in the acceptance of articles even though the number of submissions was almost the same as in volume ۱۱ [۱]. The average time to decide to accept articles in ۲۰۲۳ was ۸۳ days and the average time from acceptance to publication of articles was calculated to be ۱۸ days.

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