Abstract

443 medical journals have been published in Turkjey between the years 1928 and 1994 192 of them in the last 20, and 144 in the last 10 years. The number of journals that are still being published currently are 57 and 40 of these respectively (30 and 28 percent). The number of journals being published at present is 187. Of the 26 journals published in foreign language, only 13 have remained in publication. Only 71 out of 299 journals (23.7%) are beeing published for more than 10 years. This uncontrollable increase in journal numbers seems to be a majör negative impact on the scientific level and on the regularity of the journals. It is a major opinion that selected journals should be supported on funds that will tightly be controlled by a board of editors, who at the same time will judge on the quality of the relevant journals.