In the year 2018, the Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand (NLM Title Abbreviation: J Med Assoc Thai; ISO Abbreviation: J Med Assoc Thai; and in original Thai: Chot Mai Het Thang Phaet) will celebrate its 100th Anniversary. It is the oldest academic journal ever established in Thailand and has been published without interruption since then. Today, it is still the only one monthly journal with highest numbers of annual regularly published and supplement articles among the 308 Thai biomedical journals listed in Thai-journal Citation Index Center for the years 2014-2016. These figures confirm that the J Med Assoc Thai is the most in-demand journal by Thai scientists and early career researchers to publish their research findings as academic contributions to global scientific community.

The first issue of the Journal of Medical Association of Thailand was published in 1918 by the Siam Red Cross Society under the name of “the Medical Journal of the Red Cross Society of Siam”. A few years later, the management of the journal was transferred to the Medical Association of Thailand which was independent from any academic institute and became a non-profit medical organization whose members were doctors from all specialties. Since the journal had published scientific articles submitted by authors from various institutes and was subscribed by local and international libraries, the name of the journal was later changed to the “Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand” in 1941. It has published several national and international articles which were of exceptional clinical importance and urgency and local scientific findings to serve public policies and clinical practice guidelines of various tropical infections as well as non-infectious diseases. The journal is the wholly owned subsidiary of the Medical Association of Thailand.read more...