Journal of Basic Medical Sciences

ent disciplines and predominantly basic medical sciences. Th e fi rst issue was published in , followed by a four year period without publication. Th e second issue was published in February and since then the BJBMS has been pub-lished regularly and in a timely fashion. As BJBMS is now ap-proaching its th year anniversary of continuous publishing, we believe that it is time to evaluate the achievements in this period. Trends in manuscript submissions to the BJBMS Th e number of articles published in was very low. Lat-er, the number of published articles steadily increased over the years reaching its peak during the years of - when the BJBMS was publishing and articles annu-ally (Figure ). It is obvious that most articles published at this point originated from the B&H affiliating institutions and only small proportion of articles were from abroad. Due to the lack of the submission tracking at that time it is not possible to conclude whether the low number of pub-lished international articles is a result of the low number of submissions outside B&H. We believe that this is the most likely case. During this time the editorial policy was to at-tract as many scientists originating from B&H and working in the developed countries to publish their work in BJBMS. Th e most international articles published during this time-frame were coming from the B&H originating scientists, who were conducting their research in the mainstream settings. Two events were especially relevant for the editorial work in the journal. These were the inclusion of the BJBMS in two major bibliographic databases: PubMed/Medline in and the Th omson Scientifi c in . Another very im-portant event in March occurred; making the journal available in free full text on the Internet and subsequent inclusion in the Open Access databases (Figure ). In , the inclusion of BJBMS in the Science Citation Index Ex-panded (Th omson Scientifi c) database, the free availability of full text articles on the Internet and the fi rst Impact Fac-tor, marked another period for the journal which require