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Korean Journal of Medical History is the peer-reviewed, open-access official journal of the KOREAN society for the History of Medicine. It began to be published from 1992. It had been published biannually from 1992 to 2011. It is published tri-annually in the last day of April, August and December from 2012. Its scope includes historical research not only on Korea, but also on East Asia and Western countries. It accepts manuscripts from ancient history to modern history in the field of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and oriental medicine. Its abbreviated title is the Korean J Med Hist. Circulation number of print copies per issue is 550. It is indexed in the KoreaMed, KoMCI, KCI, WPRIM, DOAJ, Google Scholar, Medline/PubMed, SCOPUS, and A&HCI/Web of Science. Full text PDF is freely available from http://medhist.or.kr. It is supported by the National Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST, Basic Research Promotion Fund).