Journal Title：Balkan Medical Journal

The Balkan Medical Journal (Balkan Med J) is a peer-reviewed open-access international journal that publishes interesting clinical and experimental research conducted in all fields of medicine, interesting case reports and clinical images, invited reviews, editorials, letters, comments and letters to the Editor including reports on publication and research ethics. The journal is the official scientific publication of the Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey and is printed six times a year, in January, March, May, July, September and November. The language of the journal is English.

The journal is based on independent and unbiased double-blinded peer-reviewed principles. Only unpublished papers that are not under review for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Balkan Medical Journal does not accept multiple submission and duplicate submission even though the previous one was published in a different language. The authors are responsible for the scientific content of the material to be published. The Balkan Medical Journal reserves the right to request any research materials on which the paper is based.

The Balkan Medical Journal encourages and enables academicians, researchers, specialists and primary care physicians of Balkan countries to publish their valuable research in all branches of medicine. The primary aim of the journal is to publish original articles with high scientific and ethical quality and serve as a good example of medical publications in the Balkans as well as in the World.

巴尔干医学杂志 (Balkan Med J) 是一份经过同行评审的开放获取国际期刊，发表在所有医学领域进行的有趣的临床和实验研究、有趣的病例报告和临床图像、特邀评论、社论、信件、给编辑的评论和信函，包括关于出版和研究伦理的报告。该杂志是土耳其埃迪尔内特拉基亚大学医学院的官方科学出版物，每年一月、三月、五月、七月、九月和十一月印刷六次。期刊的语言是英文。

该期刊基于独立和公正的双盲同行评审原则。只能提交未在其他地方发表的审查中未发表的论文。 Balkan Medical Journal 不接受多次投稿和重复投稿，即使前一篇是用不同的语言发表的。作者对要发表的材料的科学内容负责。巴尔干医学杂志保留索取论文所依据的任何研究材料的权利。

《巴尔干医学杂志》鼓励并使巴尔干国家的院士、研究人员、专家和初级保健医生发表他们在所有医学分支中的宝贵研究成果。该杂志的主要目标是发表具有高科学和道德质量的原创文章，并成为巴尔干半岛乃至世界医学出版物的典范。