WORDS FROM THE CURRENT EDITOR OF MJMS

The Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences (MJMS) was recently accepted into Scopus during its 15th birthday. Since taking over the helmship of MJMS early this year, we have made MJMS an online journal, publishing 4 issues per year. Early fast track publications for issues already accepted for publication, have started. Our peer reviewers are currently national and international (where Malaysian specialist and scientists overseas have agreed to be on the editorial board). Manuscripts from outside Malaysia are increasing up to a rate of 20 percent since 2007. Our rejection rate has also increased to 20 percent as our intention is to finally to be accepted by ISI and Medline thus we hope the quality of our papers can be maintained. Gone are the days when MJMS was the journal to sent manuscripts to when they were rejected by other peer-reviewed journals!