Abstract

Only few of the 14 medical journals published in Izmir have been found uniform (2), to have appropriate references to Index Medicus (1) and to have good year, volume and number correlation (2). Acceptance rate of papers is above 90 percent for 10 journals. This rate is 100 percent for 5 journals. There are only 6 (% 43) journals in which the number of peer-reviewers outnumbers the in-home reviewers. 35.8 percent of 724 published papers are from outside the institution and 13 percent of papers are from outside the city. Almost any of the journals -with only one exception- do not publish an editorial comment, letter and opposite opinion (secondary discussion). These results have shown that there are not mostly scientific standarts and quality control in the periodicals published in Izmir.